Publication Date

2015

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

Sturm College of Law

Keywords

Lawyer professional identity, Carnegie Report, Legal education

Abstract

This Article is my attempt to provide a guide to what professional identity formation is—as distinct from more familiar concepts of professionalism and ethics—and what legal educators are doing, and could do in the future, to foster this sort of professional formation in their courses and curricula. In Part I, I offer some background and history of the topic, which supports a new definition provided in the Article for lawyer professional identity formation. I describe in Part II what some schools are doing to “teach” formation of professional identity and argue that those efforts have some significant limitations. I argue in Part III that teaching law through simulations can provide learning opportunities that foster professional identity formation and that these learning opportunities can be added to any course. Finally, in Part IV, I describe a particular course in civil discovery law that illustrates the concepts and arguments made in the Article.

Rights Holder

David I.C. Thomson

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

35 pgs

File Size

463 KB

Publication Statement

Originally published as David I.C. Thomson, "Teaching" Formation of Professional Identity, 27 Regent U. L. Rev. 303 (2015). Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Publication Title

Regent University Law Review

Volume

27

First Page

303

Last Page

337

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