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The St. Thomas Effect: Law School Mission And The Formation Of Professional Identity, Jennifer Wright
The St. Thomas Effect: Law School Mission And The Formation Of Professional Identity, Jennifer Wright
Jennifer Wright
The legal profession has long been criticized for declining standards of professionalism. Recent studies have pointed to the crucial role of legal education in forming the professional identity of lawyers. Law schools must take seriously their duty to intentionally and thoughtfully shape their students’ sense of what it means to be a lawyer and of how their professional identities will align and coexist with their other personal and ethical commitments. In this article, I examine a case study of one law school, the University of St. Thomas School of Law, whose self-proclaimed raison d’etre is to produce a “different kind …
Happy Law Students, Happy Lawyers, Nancy Levit, Douglas Linder
Happy Law Students, Happy Lawyers, Nancy Levit, Douglas Linder
Nancy Levit
This article draws on research into the science of happiness and asks a series of interrelated questions: Whether law schools can make law students happier? Whether making happier law students will translate into making them happier lawyers, and the accompanying question of whether making law students happier would create better lawyers? After covering the limitations of genetic determinants of happiness and happiness set-points, the article addresses those qualities that happiness research indicates are paramount in creating satisfaction: control, connections, creative challenge (or flow), and comparisons (preferably downward). Those qualities are then applied to legal education, while addressing the larger philosophical …
Happy Law Students, Happy Lawyers, Nancy Levit, Douglas O. Linder
Happy Law Students, Happy Lawyers, Nancy Levit, Douglas O. Linder
Faculty Works
This article draws on research into the science of happiness and asks a series of interrelated questions: Whether law schools can make law students happier? Whether making happier law students will translate into making them happier lawyers, and the accompanying question of whether making law students happier would create better lawyers? After covering the limitations of genetic determinants of happiness and happiness set-points, the article addresses those qualities that happiness research indicates are paramount in creating satisfaction: control, connections, creative challenge (or flow), and comparisons (preferably downward). Those qualities are then applied to legal education, while addressing the larger philosophical …
Non-Trivial Pursuit: The California Attorney Guidelines Of Civility And Professionalism, A Ethics, Melissa S. Hung
Non-Trivial Pursuit: The California Attorney Guidelines Of Civility And Professionalism, A Ethics, Melissa S. Hung
Santa Clara Law Review
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The Importance Of Professionalism, John L. Gedid