Hi all,
I'm writing from Topeka, Kansas where we've just finished the Humanizing
Legal Education conference, a group of about 100 (mostly) law professors and
administrators from three countries, representing 50 different law schools.
Washburn Law School hosted the conference. Many of you may know that the
American Association of Law Schools recently created a Balance in Legal
Education section; Larry Krieger and Ken Sheldon have some ground-breaking
research on well-being in legal education; several prestigious reports have
recommended the reform of legal education. The Humanizing Legal Ed topic has
come to the attention of the mainstream! You'd all have been proud of Norma
Trusch's panel presentation on collaborative law, one of the more popular
break-out sessions this morning. Jeanne Fahey was our moderator. I talked
about restorative justice and Bruce Winick talked about therapeutic
jurisprudence. We followed a plenary by Susan Daicoff on comprehensive law.
The connection between humanizing legal education and humanizing the
practice of law was clear.
Besides our upcoming IACP conference, the Association of Conflict Resolution
Conference (the majority of whose members are lawyers) will be held
overlapping Toronto. The Memphis Bar is hosting a conference called "Lawyers
as Peacemakers" starting on Sunday, 10/28. (I'll be leaving the conference
early to go there to lead an introductory program to Collaborative Law.)
Touro Law School in New York is offering "Lawyers as Healers" on November 4
and 5. And many of you know that last week, there was the Innovative
Lawyering program in Missouri.
I know many of you see collaborative law as part of a bigger movement and
wanted to let you know that we're growing! If you're interested in the
Memphis program, check it out at
http://www.memphisbar.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper
<http://www.memphisbar.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=361>
&Itemid=361
Touro's program is at:
http://tourolaw.edu/cle/cle_program_schedule/current_programs.asp ;
Warmly,
Kim
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