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Instructing Judges: Ethical Experience And Educational Technique, Cynthia Gray, Frances Kahn Zemans
Instructing Judges: Ethical Experience And Educational Technique, Cynthia Gray, Frances Kahn Zemans
Law and Contemporary Problems
Most professional responsibility textbooks do not discuss judicial conduct, and not surprisingly, many judges find themselves unprepared for the ethical dilemmas they face when they make the transition from partisan advocate to neutral arbiter. Gray and Zemans discuss the nine-topic curriculum for judicial educators to use to teach judicial ethics to judges at programs for new judges, continuing judicial education courses and judicial conferences.
Annotated Bibliography Of Educational Materials On Legal Ethics, Deborah L. Rhode
Annotated Bibliography Of Educational Materials On Legal Ethics, Deborah L. Rhode
Law and Contemporary Problems
Rhode presents an annotated bibliography that includes references to written and audiovisual materials for legal ethics courses and curricular integration projects.
Contextualizing Professional Responsibility: A New Curriculum For A New Century, Mary C. Daly, Bruce A. Green, Russell G. Pearce
Contextualizing Professional Responsibility: A New Curriculum For A New Century, Mary C. Daly, Bruce A. Green, Russell G. Pearce
Law and Contemporary Problems
Daly et al assert that professional responsibility has matured as a subject matter to the point where a new genre of courses should join the pervasive method and the traditional survey course. The new age of professaional responsibility will reflect intellectual maturity through the introduction of contextual course that are designed to nurture the development of reflective ethical judgment.
Judicial Ethics Simulation Based Training, Stephen M. Simon, Maury S. Landsman
Judicial Ethics Simulation Based Training, Stephen M. Simon, Maury S. Landsman
Law and Contemporary Problems
The Judicial Ethics Education Project trains trial judges to be aware of ethical issues that arise in the trial process. The goal of the project, which employs case simulations that raise ethical and management issues requiring immediate attention during the course of a trial, is to provide sitting judges with a basis on which to make similar decisions during trials.
New Horizons In The Role Of Law Schools In Teaching Legal Ethics, Robert F. Drinan
New Horizons In The Role Of Law Schools In Teaching Legal Ethics, Robert F. Drinan
Law and Contemporary Problems
Legal Ethics became a required course in the late 1970s; however, the requirement of this course both helped and hindered the development of the status of legal ethics as a respected discipline. The role of law schools in teaching legal ethics is explored.
Redefining The Professional In Professional Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Teaching Professionalism, David B. Wilkins
Redefining The Professional In Professional Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Teaching Professionalism, David B. Wilkins
Law and Contemporary Problems
For the last three years, the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession has been exploring the contemporary meaning of professionalism and developing new ways to impart the best aspects of this normative understanding to students. Wilkins reports on an intensive course involving both law students and medical students entitled "Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Practice: Physicians and Lawyers in Dialogue."
The Responsibility Of Law Schools: Educating Lawyers As Counselors And Problem Solvers, Paul Brest
The Responsibility Of Law Schools: Educating Lawyers As Counselors And Problem Solvers, Paul Brest
Law and Contemporary Problems
American legal education is as strong as ever in doctrine and legal analysis; however, it is strikingly weak in teaching other foundational skills and knowledge that lawyers need as counselors, problem solvers and negotiators. Brest proposes a series of advanced courses that integrate the fundamental lawyering skills of counseling, problem solving and negotiation with insights from other disciplines.
Teaching The Basic Ethics Class Through Simulation: The Northwestern Program In Advocacy And Professionalism, Robert P. Burns
Teaching The Basic Ethics Class Through Simulation: The Northwestern Program In Advocacy And Professionalism, Robert P. Burns
Law and Contemporary Problems
The Northwestern University School of Law created and published a set of materials for teaching the basic ethics course principally through the simulation method. Burns provides a very compressed summary of the underlying program, describes the classes themselves and the mix of teaching methods professors employ, and briefly discusses the program materials.
Into The Valley Of Ethics: Professional Responsibility And Educational Reform, Deborah L. Rhode
Into The Valley Of Ethics: Professional Responsibility And Educational Reform, Deborah L. Rhode
Law and Contemporary Problems
For most of history, American legal education has aspired to teach professional responsibility by a pervasive method. Rhode charts efforts to realize that aspiration, not just in theory but in practice.
Professional Responsibility As A Lawyering Skill, Michael E. Wolfson
Professional Responsibility As A Lawyering Skill, Michael E. Wolfson
Law and Contemporary Problems
Little has been done to teach professional responsibility in a way that provides students with more than a mere sampling of rules and principles. In an attempt to move Beyond mere tinkering with the way professional responsibility is taught, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles restructured the way it taught the subject by creating a class that fully integrated ethics and lawyering skills into a single required course.
The Personal Dimension Of Professional Responsibility, John Mixon, Robert P. Schuwerk
The Personal Dimension Of Professional Responsibility, John Mixon, Robert P. Schuwerk
Law and Contemporary Problems
The development of a professional responsibility course at the University of Houston Law Center that focused on the personal dimension of professional reponsibility is described. Mixon and Schuwerk present an evaluation of their experience with the course and a critique of that effort.
Paying Attention To The Signs, Susan P. Koniak, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Paying Attention To The Signs, Susan P. Koniak, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Law and Contemporary Problems
Legal ethics is considered the step-child of legal education, and serious scholarship in legal ethics is considered somewhat of an oxymoron. Koniak and Hazard set out to produce materials that would help law students learn something about their responsibilities as lawyers and that would encourage a serious approach toward those responsibilities and the complexity of being an ethical person in an unredeemed and often unforgiving world.
Integrating Theory And Practice Into The Professional Responsibility Curriculum At The University Of Texas, John S. Dzienkowski, Sanford Levinson, Charles Silver, Amon Burton
Integrating Theory And Practice Into The Professional Responsibility Curriculum At The University Of Texas, John S. Dzienkowski, Sanford Levinson, Charles Silver, Amon Burton
Law and Contemporary Problems
Teaching ethics to large classes has always proved to be a great challenge for those who teach professional responsibility at the University of Texas. A new program at the University of Texas to improve the professional responsibility curriculum is discussed.
The Infusion Method At Ucla: Teaching Ethics Pervasively, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Richard H. Sander
The Infusion Method At Ucla: Teaching Ethics Pervasively, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Richard H. Sander
Law and Contemporary Problems
From the beginning, the focus on teaching about legal ethics and the legal profession at UCLA was on the diversity of ways of teaching and learning about different aspects of legal ethics and the legal profession.
Information Technology And Legal Ethics: Expanding The Teaching And Understanding Of Legal Ethics Through The Creation Of A New Generation Of Electronic Reference Materials, Roger C. Cramton, Peter W. Martin
Information Technology And Legal Ethics: Expanding The Teaching And Understanding Of Legal Ethics Through The Creation Of A New Generation Of Electronic Reference Materials, Roger C. Cramton, Peter W. Martin
Law and Contemporary Problems
Cramton and Martin present a very brief summary of the inward-looking elements of the Cornell Law School prorgam to improve the basic required course in professional ethics and to encourage the pervasive teaching of the subject throughout the law curriculum. The Cornell program focuses on the preparation and dissemination of electronic material on legal ethics on a state-by-state basis.
Enriching The Legal Ethics Curriculum: From Requirement To Desire, Heidi Li Feldman
Enriching The Legal Ethics Curriculum: From Requirement To Desire, Heidi Li Feldman
Law and Contemporary Problems
The faculty at the University of Michigan Law School has been attempting to increase students' awareness of the practical significance of legal ethics and the relationship between legal ethics and other areas of law. Feldman describes some of Michigan's innovations in the area of professional responsibility and outlines some of the plans to expand and improve the reforms already in place.
The University Of North Carolina Intergenerational Legal Ethics Project: Expanding The Contexts For Teaching Professional Ethics And Values, Walter H. Bennett Jr.
The University Of North Carolina Intergenerational Legal Ethics Project: Expanding The Contexts For Teaching Professional Ethics And Values, Walter H. Bennett Jr.
Law and Contemporary Problems
The University of North Carolina Law School Intergenerational Legal Ethics Project (UNC Project) is an effort to identify new course concepts and structures and other curricular innovations that can bring education in professional values to a deeper, more personal level. The UNC project includes the premise that ethical learning is deep, internal learning.