Ethics and Legal Education

Epistemology and Ethics in Relationship - Centered Legal Education and Practice

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Susan L. Brooks is the Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and an Associate Professor of Law at the Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law. Robert G. Madden is a Professor of Social Work at Saint Joseph College, where he currently serves as Special Assistant to the President. He is also a Lecturer in Law at the University of Connecticut. The authors dedicate this art...

Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, legal informatics and legal education

Fragmentation and convergence are two discoursal lenses that have been used to view changes that have taken place in the domains of legal services, the legal profession, regulation and legal education. While they may appear orthogonal, the relationships between them are intimate, sophisticated, constantly shifting and require much more analysis. In this paper I shall argue that law schools need...

Legal briefing: Healthcare ethics committees.

This issue's "Legal Briefing" column covers recent legal developments involving institutional healthcare ethics committees. This topic has been the subject of recent articles in JCE. Healthcare ethics committees have also recently been the subject of significant public policy attention. Disturbingly, Bobby Schindler and others have described ethics committees as "death panels." But most of the ...

Three Issues in Legal Ethics

The Future of Legal Ethics