Law student professional development and formation : bridging law school, student, and employer goals /

"Law schools currently do an excellent job of helping students to 'think like a lawyer,' but empirical data show that clients, legal employers, and the legal system need students to develop a wider range of competencies. This book helps legal educators to understand these competencies...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hamilton, Neil W. (Author), Bilionis, Louis D. (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the four foundational professional-development-and-formation (PD&F) goals and their benefits for faculty, staff, and administrators
  • A framework for purposefulness to realize the four professional-development-and-formation goals
  • Competency-based education as another step toward purposefulness
  • lessons learned from medical education's fifteen years of additional experience with professional development and formation goals
  • Ten principles to inform curriculum development
  • Going where each stakeholder is and building bridges among them in order to realize the four professional-development-and-formation goals
  • The opportunity to lead.