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"Teaching" Formation Of Professional Identity, David I.C. Thomson
"Teaching" Formation Of Professional Identity, David I.C. Thomson
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This Article is my attempt to provide a guide to what professional identity formation is—as distinct from more familiar concepts of professionalism and ethics—and what legal educators are doing, and could do in the future, to foster this sort of professional formation in their courses and curricula. In Part I, I offer some background and history of the topic, which supports a new definition provided in the Article for lawyer professional identity formation. I describe in Part II what some schools are doing to “teach” formation of professional identity and argue that those efforts have some significant limitations. I argue …