Law Student Professional Development and Formation

Neil Hamilton has focused on the professional development and formation of law students in his teaching since 1987 and in his scholarship since 2001 with fifty-seven law journal articles and a book, Roadmap: The Law Student's Guide to Meaningful Employment (2d ed. 2018). He is the 2006 founding director of the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions. Louis D. Bilionis is Dean Emeritus and Droege Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and a Fellow at the Holloran Center. An experienced administrator, teacher, and scholar, he has focused particularly on strategies for leading change in legal education.

• 1. Introduction: The four foundational professional-development-and-formation goals and their benefits for faculty, staff, and administrators; 2. A framework for purposefulness to realize the four professional-development-and-formation goals; 3. Competency-based education as another step toward purposefulness – lessons learned from medical education's fifteen years of additional experience with professional development and formation goals; 4. Ten principles to inform curriculum development; 5. Going where each stakeholder is and building bridges among them in order to realize the four professional-development-and-formation goals; 6. The opportunity to lead.

'This book is an invaluable resource as law schools increasingly seek to prepare students to be lawyers and not just think like them. It lays out both the why and the how of professional identity formation programs, with lots of concrete guidance to assist faculty, staff, and deans in creating their own programs.' Wendy Perdue, Dean at the University of Richmond School of Law, and former President of the American Association of Law Schools