Embracing Leadership Development in Legal Education
I recently had the privilege of participating in the 2019 program for the . I and my fellow panelists, Yale law professor Bob Post and Columbia law professor Susan Sturm, discussed the importance of advancing leadership education in law 해외 카지노 추천 a topic that is central to the Section on Leadership해외 카지노 추천s mission of promoting activities that prepare lawyers and law students to serve in leadership roles.
Lawyers are leaders, and many people in leadership roles have a legal education. Until relatively recently, though, most law programs did not specifically include leadership development as part of their curriculum. But it해외 카지노 추천s important to note that even though they may not have been called out as such, many aspects of leadership have always been part of legal education. For example, lawyers are taught to hone their 해외 카지노 추천difficult conversation해외 카지노 추천 skills, reflect on values and ethics, and develop the ability to 해외 카지노 추천see around corners해외 카지노 추천 해외 카지노 추천 all key aspects of being a successful leader.
So, while we해외 카지노 추천re not starting from scratch when it comes to leadership, there해외 카지노 추천s still much that we can add. Law school has always been about the head, not the heart; being a leader, though, requires some of both. High levels of depression and other emotional struggles in the legal profession show that we haven해외 카지노 추천t nurtured care for our own hearts; without doing so, how can we care for the hearts of others? We must teach tomorrow해외 카지노 추천s lawyers to care for their clients emotionally, as well as cognitively.
Interestingly, business schools have focused on leadership for a long time. Why are we teaching our business executives, but not our lawyers, to be leaders? Again, this is an area where we need not start from scratch. Business schools have provided the template for leadership education, and by borrowing from that template and adding our own values, we can pave the way for more effective leadership education in law.
Finally, we must strive to overcome the resistance I often encounter regarding leadership education in law. Voices on both sides of the political spectrum have often dismissed such initiatives as too 해외 카지노 추천partisan해외 카지노 추천 해외 카지노 추천 claiming they either make the curriculum too 해외 카지노 추천militaristic해외 카지노 추천 or 해외 카지노 추천corporate,해외 카지노 추천 or that they dilute the curriculum with 해외 카지노 추천soft해외 카지노 추천 skills. The truth is that leadership has no political party. By focusing on values, in addition to skills, we can nurture leaders who will advance the rule of law and help us build the future of justice.
You can read at the program, along with those made by and , on the Section on Leadership해외 카지노 추천s website. We해외 카지노 추천ll be talking more about leadership in legal education on the next installment of 해외 카지노 추천Live With Kellye and Ken,해외 카지노 추천 my webcast series with iLaw President Ken Randall, on Monday, April 1, at 4 p.m. Eastern time. The theme for the webcast is 해외 카지노 추천Law and Leadership: If You Build It, They Will Come.해외 카지노 추천
