Journal article
Fostering Wholehearted Lawyers: Practical Guidance for Supporting Law Students’ Professional Identity Formation
University of St. Thomas law journal, Vol.14(2), p412
22 Mar 2018
Abstract
In this essay, I reflect on the past twenty-five years and set out a number of core principles and practices that I have gleaned from this movement thus far. My main message is twofold: first, as legal educators, all of us can participate in this professional identity social movement if we are willing to approach our work as a humanistic enterprise and become more intentional about our teaching; and second, we can begin by adopting and modeling effective communication principles and practices to support law students' professional identity formation inside and outside of our classrooms. I have noted elsewhere three different types of settings that lend themselves to these efforts: (1) experiential courses, (2) dedicated/stand-alone courses, and (3) pervasive practices.29 In this essay, I will focus mainly on pervasive practices, as these are things we can all apply in our day-to-day interactions and classroom teaching.
Part I provides some context by outlining what we already know from the empirical work conducted and the literature written over the past twenty-five years. Part II begins by describing a set of five core principles for wholehearted lawyering. It then describes three core practice goals, and, for each goal, offers specific practices all law faculty and administrators can apply in their interactions with students. The essay concludes with some further reflections and thoughts about where the professional identity social movement may go from here.
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- Title
- Fostering Wholehearted Lawyers: Practical Guidance for Supporting Law Students’ Professional Identity Formation
- Creators
- Susan L Brooks
- Publication Details
- University of St. Thomas law journal, Vol.14(2), p412
- Publisher
- University of St. Thomas School of Law
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991020547318304721