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Authentic Happiness & Meaning At Law Firms, Peter H. Huang, Rick Swedloff
Authentic Happiness & Meaning At Law Firms, Peter H. Huang, Rick Swedloff
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We advocate that law firms can and should foster authentic happiness and meaning in the professional lives of their associates. Based upon empirical and experimental research in behavioral economics and positive psychology, we consider how law firms can implement policies to promote authentic happiness and meaning in their associates' professional lives. We also believe that law schools can and should help to reduce the anxiety, stress, and unhappiness that individuals feel as law students and help them develop abilities to achieve meaningful careers as law firm associates. We provide a guide as to how law firms and law schools can …
Authentic Happiness, Self-Knowledge And Legal Policy, Peter H. Huang
Authentic Happiness, Self-Knowledge And Legal Policy, Peter H. Huang
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This Article analyzes three questions: can, how, and should legal policy help people in their individual quests for authentic happiness. This Article adopts psychologist Martin Seligman's definition of the phrase authentic happiness. This Article provides an introduction to examples of legal policies based upon empirical and experimental research in positive psychology, measures of subjective well-being, and quality of life studies.