Humane law school
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Toward "The Humane Law School" -- holistic professional legal education that emphasizes happiness in the classic meaning of leading a good life for oneself, one's clients, and one's community. What should we be teaching?
- Self assessment and reflection
- Emotional regulation
- Mindfulness
- Yoga/tai chi/meditation/dance/breathing - how to breathe and how to move your body
- Improv and acting
- Your clients and their trauma
- Managing fear and shame
- Addiction and substance abuse
- Intro to holistic psychology
- Life planning
- Telling your story
- Time management
- Stress management
- Financial management
- Crisis management
- Serious ethics
- Pro bono
- Local community
- Know people whose lives are different than your own
- Things you're not used to - for example, both poverty and wealth - since lawyers may need to navigate both
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion generally
- Recognizing bias
- Legal technology
- Networking
- Trust and trustworthiness in the law
- Human rights law
- Dispute resolution
- Reconciling your personal beliefs and your professional obligations
- Interdisciplinary law (finding and working with other professionals)
- When and how to seek help
- Contingency planning
- What to do when you make a mistake or do something wrong
- Lies in the legal system (e.g., plea bargaining)
- Saying no
- Setting and maintaining boundaries
- Compartmentalizing, boundaries, their necessity, and their risks
- Finding and managing mentors
- Healthy personal and professional relationships
- Building your community
- Teamwork
- Speaking to nonlawyers
- Models of lawyering (guide, governor, guardian)
- Managing and addressing professional burnout
- Non-verbal communication (including using and reading body language)
- Empathy
- Integrating your past training and experience (e.g., undergrad degree, prior work, military service)
- Making friends as an adult
- Self defense
- Storytelling
- Taking initiative
- How to read
- Asking questions
- How to use (and how not to use) Google and Wikipedia in legal research