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General Information

Dates:
Friday, October 19, 2007, 4:00-8:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 20, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
Sunday, October 21, 2007, 8:00-11:30 a.m.

Location:
Washburn University School of Law
Parking: north, south and east of school.

Directions/Maps

• To Washburn Law
• To Capitol Plaza Hotel and Brown NHS
• From Wanamaker Road hotels (see below) to Washburn Law
• Major Topeka streets and attractions (378 KB PDF)
• Restaurant Guide (34 KB PDF)

Sponsored by:
Washburn University School of Law and Washburn Law Journal

Registration for the symposium is free. However, seating is limited; the law school only has space for 50 attendees (in addition to those attendees who will be speaking at the conference). To ensure sufficient accommodations for guests, you must pre-register. When you register, please note special accommodations you may require.

Lodging:
Attendees may wish to consider the following hotels for accommodations:

Topeka Courtyard by Marriott
2033 SW Wanamaker Road
(800) 321-2211
(785) 271-6165

Holiday Inn Express
901 SW Robinson Avenue
(888) 465-4329
(785) 228-9500

Fairfield Inn
1530 SW Westport Drive
(785) 273-6800

Comfort Inn
1518 SW Wanamaker Road
(785) 273-3365

Days Inn of Topeka
1510 SW Wanamaker Road
(785) 272-8538

Contact:
If you have any questions about the symposium, please contact Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz at michael.schwartz [at] washburn.edu or at (785) 670-1666.

Symposium Planning Committee:

Professor Amy Bushaw
Lewis & Clark Law School
10015 SW Terwilliger Blvd.
Portland, OR 97219-7799
bushaw [at] lclark.edu

Professor Margaret Drew
University of Cincinnati College of Law
Clifton Avenue & Calhoun St.
Cincinnati, OH 45221
drewmb [at] ucmail.uc.edu

Professor and Dr. Amy Jarmon
Texas Tech University School of Law
MS0004
1802 Hartford Ave.
Lubbock, Texas 79409
amy.jarmon [at] ttu.edu

Professor Sue Liemer
Southern Illinois University School of Law
1150 Douglas Dr., Mail Code 6804
Carbondale, IL 62901
sliemer [at] law.siu.edu

Associate Dean and Professor Jerome M. Organ
Mail # MSL 414
University of St. Thomas
1000 LaSalle Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55403-2015
jmorgan [at] stthomas.edu

Professor Robert Schuwerk
University of Houston Law Center
100 Law Center
Houston, TX 77204
RSchuwerk [at] Central.UH.edu

Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz
Washburn University School of Law
1700 SW College Ave.
Topeka, KS 66621
michael.schwartz [at] washburn.edu

J. Kim Wright
Publisher
Cutting Edge Law Magazine
P.O. Box 306
Asheville, NC 28802
jkimwright [at] earthlink.net

Registration for this event is closed.

Humanizing Legal Education Symposium
October 19-21, 2007

About the Symposium

Washburn University School of Law, the editors of the Washburn Law Journal and the Symposium Planning Committee are pleased to host Humanizing Legal Education, a symposium/conference. Humanizing Legal Education, now a section of the American Association of Law Schools called "Balance in Legal Education," is a movement that responds to recent studies suggesting that legal education, at least at some law schools, adversely affects law students in disturbing ways. Presenters and conference attendees will explore the likely causes of the problem and ideas for improving law students' law school experiences.

The program will begin with a welcome dinner and plenary session Friday evening, October 19. Plenary and concurrent programs are scheduled all day Saturday, October 20 and for Sunday morning, October 21. More than 30 speakers will be presenting their ideas, including the national leaders in the field: Larry Krieger, Susan Daicoff, Barbara Glesner-Fines, Gerald Hess, Bruce Winick, Paula Lustbader and Daisy Hurst-Floyd.

This event resulted in a symposium issue of the Washburn Law Journal that serves as a first-look resource for law faculties and deans interested in understanding and addressing new ideas relating to the humanizing theme. Links to individual articles in the symposium issue are indicated below by the designation Symposium article.

Schedule

Friday

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm — Arrival and Check-in, Capitol Plaza Hotel

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm — Dinner and Opening Ceremonies
Capitol Plaza Hotel, Emerald Ballroom

• Welcome Remarks
  • Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz, Washburn University School of Law
    • Symposium article: Humanizing Legal Education: An Introduction to a Symposium Whose Time Came, 47 Washburn Law Journal 235 (2008) (88 KB PDF)
  • Dean Tom Romig, Washburn University School of Law
• Plenary 1
  • "Education, Economics and Humanizing Law Schools"
    Professor Barbara Glesner-Fines, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
    • Symposium article: Fundamental Principles and Challenges of Humanizing Legal Education, 47 Washburn Law Journal 313 (2008) (111 KB PDF)
    • See Legal Writing Prof Blog entry by Professor Nancy Soonpaa

Saturday

8:00 am - 8:30 am — Continental Breakfast on Campus

8:30 am - 9:15 am — Plenary 2

• "Empirical Insights on the 'Why' and 'How' of Humanizing Legal Education"
  Professor Lawrence S. Krieger, Florida State University School of Law
  • Symposium article: Human Nature As a New Guiding Philosophy for Legal Education and the Profession, 47 Washburn Law Journal 247 (2008) (347 KB PDF)
  • Handout [Supporting well being] (13 KB PDF)
  • Handout [Autonomy support] (12 KB PDF)
  • Handout [Attorney qualities] (13 KB PDF)
  • See also Legal Writing Prof Blog entry by Professor Nancy Soonpaa

9:30 am - 10:45 am — Concurrent Presentations, Session 1 (Psychology and Student Well-Being I)

• Session 1A: Law Student and Lawyer Happiness
  • "Using Positive Psychology to Promote Personal and Professional Well-Being"
    Professor Denise Riebe, Brooklyn Law School
    • Handout (71 KB PDF)
  • "Mission Happiness or Mission Impossible: Can Law Schools Create Happy Law Students? Should They?"
    Professor Nancy Levit, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
    Professor Douglas O. Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
    • Handout [Positive psychology bibliography] (35 KB PDF)

• Session 1B: Integration and Peer Bullying in Law School
  • "Personal Integration and Outsider Status as Factors in Law Student and Lawyer Wellbeing"
    Professor Susan Grover, William & Mary Marshall-Whyte School of Law
    • Symposium article: Personal Integration and Outsider Status As Factors in Law Student Well-Being, 47 Washburn Law Journal 419 (2008) (299 KB PDF)
  • "Lucifer Goes to Law School: Towards Explaining and Minimizing Law Student Peer-to-Peer Harassment and Intimidation"
    Professor Rebecca C. Flanagan, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
    • Symposium article: Lucifer Goes to Law School: Towards Explaining and Minimizing Law Student Peer-to-Peer Harassment and Intimidation, 47 Washburn Law Journal 453 (2008) (125 KB PDF)

• Session 1C: Responding to Specific Student Stressors: Maintaining Scholarships and Students with Disabilities
  • "Buying a Statistic or Investing in People: Law School Scholarship Programs and Their Impact on Student Well-Being"
    Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law Jerome M. Organ, University of St. Thomas School of Law
    • Handout [PowerPoint] (75 KB PDF)
    • Handout (19 KB PDF)
  • "Humanizing the Law School Classroom For Those Who Learn Differently: A Case Study of Three Law Students With Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)."
    Professor Leah M. Christensen, University of St. Thomas School of Law
    • Handout [PowerPoint] (59 KB PDF)
    • Handout [Article excerpts] (55 KB PDF)

11:00 am - 12:15 pm — Concurrent Presentations, Session 2 (Psychology and Student Well-Being II)

• Session 2A: Stressors and Stress Intervention
  • "A Model for Stress Intervention: Toward Humanizing Legal Education"
    Professor Martha Peters, Elon University School of Law
    • Handout (463 KB PDF)
  • "Towards a Model of Law School Stressors"
    Doctoral Candidate Andrea M. Flynn, DePaul University Department of Psychology
    • Handout (130 KB PDF)

• Session 2B: Neuroscience and Multiple Intelligences
  • "Workshop on Humanizing Legal Education Through Valuing and Nurturing Multiple Intelligences"
    Professor Kirsten Dauphinais, University of North Dakota School of Law
    • Handout (2.2 MB PDF)
  • "Brain Science 101- Bringing the Delphic Oracle to Law School"
    Professor Ellen Waldman, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
    Professor Marybeth Herald, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
    • Handout (325 KB PDF)

• Session 2C: Focus on the Well-Being of Today's Students
  • "'Waiting On The World To Change': Humanizing Legal Education by Addressing the Challenges of the Millennial Generation"
    Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Keith E. Sealing, University of Loisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
  • "Teaching Compassion to Millennial Law Students"
    Professor D'lorah L. Hughes, Whittier Law School
  • "Promoting the Enthusiasm of First-Year Law Students"
    Professor Emily B. Zimmerman, Drexel University College of Law

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm — Lunch and Plenary 3

• "You Are Not in Kansas Anymore: How Law School Orientation Programs Can Help Students Fly Over the Rainbow"
  Professor Paula Lustbader, Seattle University School of Law
  • Symposium article: You Are Not in Kansas Anymore: Orientation Programs Can Help Students Fly over the Rainbow, 47 Washburn Law Journal 327 (2008) (286 KB PDF)
  • Handout (179 KB PDF)
  • Handout [PowerPoint] (524 KB PDF)

2:15 pm - 3:30 pm — Concurrent Presentations, Session 3 (Courses, Teaching Methods, Curriculum and Student Needs)

• Session 3A: Specific Courses
  • "Structuring and Presenting a Law School Course Exploring Humanizing Issues"
    Professor Robert P. Schuwerk, University of Houston Law Center
    • Handout [South Texas Law Review excerpt] (80 KB PDF)
    • Handout [CLE excerpt, section IV] (21 KB PDF)
    • Handout [CLE excerpt, section V] (41 KB PDF)
  • "Moving From First to Final Draft: Does Applying Autonomy Support Theory Motivate LRW Students to Flow Through the Writing Process?"
    Professor Carol Wallinger, Rutgers University School of Law, Camden
    • Handout (618 KB PDF)

• Session 3B: Institutional Change
  • "Structural and Pedagogical Choices"
    Professor Katherine M. Hessler, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • "The Humanizing Legal Education Movement: One Teacher’s Efforts, Opportunities, Obstacles, and Challenges"
    Professor Marjorie Silver, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
    • Handout (190 KB PDF)
    • Handout [PowerPoint] (845 KB PDF)

• Session 3C: Teaching Changes
  • "Humanize This? Suggestions for the Large Classroom"
    Professor Justine Dunlap, Southern New England School of Law
    • Symposium article: "I'd Just As Soon Flunk You As Look at You?" The Evolution to Humanizing in a Large Classroom, 47 Washburn Law Journal 389 (2008) (193 KB PDF)
    • Handout [Assignment] (13 KB PDF)
    • Handout [Questions] (18 KB PDF)
    • Handout [Responses] (24 KB PDF)
  • "The Mindful Law Professor: Teaching and Modeling Mindfulness in Differently Diverse Classrooms"
    Professor Rhonda V. Magee, University of San Francisco School of Law

3:45 pm - 4:45 pm — Plenary 4

• "Collaborative Course Design: Not My course, Not Their course, But Our Course"
  Professor Gerald Hess, Gonzaga University School of Law
  • Symposium article: Collaborative Course Design: Not My Course, Not Their Course, but Our Course, 47 Washburn Law Journal 367 (2008) (135 KB PDF)
  • Handout [Outline] (16 KB PDF)
  • Handout [Sample syllabus] (124 KB PDF)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm — Optional Tours of the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site (brief online tour).
Get directions and map

6:00 - ? — Dinner on your own (the law school will facilitate sign-ups for the various restaurant choices)

Sunday

8:00 am - 8:30 am — Continental Breakfast on Campus

8:30 am - 9:15 am — Plenary 5

• "The Comprehensive Law Movement and its Relation to Humanizing Legal Education"
  Professor Susan Daicoff, Florida Coastal School of Law
  • Handout (249 KB PDF)

9:30 am - 10:45 am — Concurrent Presentations, Session 4 (Students, Service Learning and the Comprehensive Law Movement)

• Session 4A: The Student Perspective from Students
  • "Humanizing Legal Education from a Student Perspective"
    Panel of students attending Washburn University School of Law

• Session 4B: Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Restorative Justice, and Collaborative Law
  • "Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Legal Education"
    Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Bruce J. Winick, University of Miami School of Law
  • "The New Lawyer: Connecting the Humanizing Legal Education Movement to Innovations in Practice"
    Professor Norma Levine Trusch, South Texas College of Law and Collaborative Family Lawyer and Mediator
    Jeanne Fahey, J.D.
    • Handout (44 KB PDF)
    • [Note: Marty Price, Restorative Justice Resource Center, was scheduled to present on "The New Lawyer" panel but was unable to attend. His intended handouts were: "Restorative Justice for Juvenile Delinquency: The Case of the Interstate 205 Rock-Throwers"; "Personalizing Crime: Mediation Produces Restorative Justice for Victims and Offenders"; and "Life After Death."

• Session 4C: Service Learning
  • "Engaging Students in a Commitment to Justice"
    Professor Ronald R. Volkmer, Creighton University School of Law
  • "Service Learning as a Humanizing Mechanism"
    Professor Amy J. Schmitz, University of Colorado Law School
    Jenna Mazzucca, University of Colorado Law School, Third-Year Student
    • Handout (Schmitz) (370 KB PDF)
    • Handout (Mazzucca) [PowerPoint] (47 KB PDF)
    • Handout (Mazzucca) [Youth and the Employment System] (193 KB PDF)

11:00 am - 11:30 am — Plenary 6 and Wrap-Up

• "Looking Back Over the Conference and Looking Forward to Legal Education Reform"
  Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz, Washburn University School of Law
  • Handout [PowerPoint, includes link to 'Law School Musical' video] (2 MB PDF)
  • Handout [note taking guide] (792 MB PDF)

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