Law and Leadership: Integrating Leadership Studies into the Law School Curriculum

by Susan McCarty, Paula Monopoli, Paul Maharg, Elizabeth Mertz, Meera E. Deo

Overview

Leadership includes the ability to persuade others to embrace one’s ideas and to act upon them. Teaching law students the art of persuasion through advocacy is at the heart of legal education. But historically law schools have not included leadership studies in the curriculum. This book is one of the first to examine whether and how to integrate the theory and practice of leadership studies into legal education and the legal profession. Interdisciplinary in its scope, with contributions from legal educators and practitioners, the book defines leadership in the context of the legal profession and explores its challenges in legal academia, private practice, and government. It also investigates whether law students need to study leadership and, if they should, why it should be offered as part of the curriculum. Finally, it considers how leadership should be taught and how it should be integrated into classes. It evaluates new leadership courses and the adaptation of existing courses to reflect on how to effectively blend law and leadership in doctrinal, clinical, and experiential classrooms.
The book includes a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and noted leadership scholar, James MacGregor Burns and a foundational essay by prominent leadership scholar and one of the founders of the International Leadership Association, Georgia Sorenson. It will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in leadership, education policy and legal ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409484721
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	02/28/2013
Series:	Emerging Legal Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Paula Monopoli is Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law. She is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Virginia School of Law and she is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Professor Monopoli also founded the School of Law's Women, Leadership & Equality Program in 2003.

Susan McCarty is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Maryland School of Law. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the University of Maryland School of Law, order of the coif. As Senior Research Fellow, McCarty edits and prepares faculty books and articles for publication.

James MacGregor Burns, Donald J. Polden, Paula A. Monopoli, Susan G. McCarty, Phoebe A. Haddon, Georgia Sorenson, Larry Richard, Alexina Jackson, Maura DeMouy, Mickey Edwards, Leary Davis, Diane Hoffmann, Michael Kelly, Brenda Bratton Blom, Lydia Nussbaum, Bonnie Allen, Avery M. Blank, Dorcas R. Gilmore, Robert J. Rhee, Alan D. Hornstein, Susan Leviton, Kerry Cooperman, Jeremy Grant-Skinner, Judy Sorum Brown.

Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword, James MacGregor Burns; Preface, Donald J. Polden; Introduction Paula A. Monopoli and Susan G. McCarty; Part I Lawyers as Leaders: Leadership studies for lawyers of the future, Phoebe A. Haddon; The nexus between leadership theory and law, Georgia Sorenson; Leadership competencies in law, Larry Richard; Leaders in the changing legal economy, Alexina Jackson; Private practice and leadership, Maura DeMouy; Policy and government leadership, Mickey Edwards. Part II Why Leadership Studies in Law School?: Why law schools should emphasize leadership theory and practice, Leary Davis; An argument for leadership education in law schools, Diane Hoffmann; Thinking like a lawyer versus thinking like a leader, Michael Kelly. Part III Developing a Curriculum: an Interdisciplinary Approach: Curricular Innovation: Charting a new professional responsibility course in a post-Carnegie world, Brenda Bratton Blom, Lydia Nussbaum and Bonnie Allen; Developing leadership through discussion and passion: a law student’s perspective, Avery M. Blank; Recovering relational lawyering: building ethical leaders through mentorship, Brenda Bratton Blom and Dorcas R. Gilmore; Reflections on team production in professional schools and the workplace, Robert J. Rhee; Literature: Law, leadership, and the literary canon, Alan D. Hornstein; Acknowledging uncommon relationships: changing how we teach students to be leaders, Susan Leviton, Kerry Cooperman and Jeremy Grant-Skinner; Teaching gender and leadership, Paula A. Monopoli. Appendix, Judy Sorum Brown and Bonnie Allen; Index.