Assignments Weeks 5 - 10
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February 11th
Mindfulness Practice & discussion
Class Assignment: Read https://www.laurarendon.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cajitas_article_kanagala_rendon.pdf.
The article will help set the context for our cajita project. While the academic focus of law students differs from that described in the article, the need for self-awarness and community is universal. In additon to reading the article, please find a box or some other containe to decorate along with personal memntos, photographs, pictures, and symbols that will help you to create a response to the questions: "Why am I becoming a lawyer?", "What do I hope to do with my legal skills," and "Who and/or what drew me to the law?" In class, we will be making our own cajitas. Thus, wee will be working on what is essentailly a "visual art project." Working with one's hands is a different modality for many lawyers, who spend most of their professional lives and work time researching writing, and speaking. Here is your opportunity to explore something a little different. We will be spending the class in focused and contemplative silence as we construct our own personal cajitas to carry throughout the remainder of the semester.
February 13th
Mindfulness Practice & discussion
Continuation of Tuesday's assignment.
Week 6
February 18th
Mindfulness Practice & discussion
No class - Monday Schedule
February 20th
Mindfulness Practice & discussion
Self-compassion
Class Assignment: Complete the following exercise in writing. It is for your eyes only; you will not be asked to turn it in and will share parts in class only if and as you desire. https://self-compassion.org/exercises/exercise-5-changing-your-critical-self-talk/.
To turn in, prepare a 300-500 word exploration on ways you might incorporate self-compassion into your practice and/or daily life.
Week 7
February 25th
Mindfulness Practice & discussion
Class Assignment: Read Clark, Kicking your Action, Az Bar Journal Feb 2023
To turn in, prepare a 300-500 word exploration on ways you might reduce unhelpful interactions with technology/devices.
Guest meditaiton facilitator: Kari Mofford
Health sciences and Engineering Librarian Trasnsformationa Leader and Certified Meditation Teacher-Claire T. Carney Library, UMassD
February 25th
Mindfulness Practice & discussion
Class Assignment: read National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being: Creating a Movement to Improve Well-Being in the Legal Profession. (2017) Please focus especially on the recommendations for law schools.
https://lawyerwellbeing.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Lawyer-Wellbeing-Report.pdf.
To turn in, prepare a reflection paper (300-500 words) on what you think the report did and did not get right. Then, using your experience at this law school so far, craft one/two of your own recommendations.
Week 8
March 6th
Mindfulness Practice & discussion
Small group sharing, reporting on so far
Class Assignment: prepare a reflection paper (500-700 words) on how your practice has been going so far. Include one success and one challenge in the reflection
Spring Break March 10-15
Week 9
March 18th
Mindfulness Practice & discussion
Legal Education and Mindfulness
Class Assignment: Please read Tamara Kuennen, The M word, 43 Hofstra L. Rev. 325(2014)
https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2787&context=hlr
To turn in, please prepare a reflection paper(300-500 words) on whether you agree with the article that openness of mind is a special lawyering vitrtue and whether mindfulness can help achieve that. If you answer yes to both, please spend a little time journaling about how you think mindfulness can help you achieve an open mind.
March 20th
Mindfulness Practice & discussion
Class Assignment: Read Leonard L. Riskin, Awareness and Ethics in Dispute Resolution and Law: Why Mindfulness Tends to Foster Ethical https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/634/h
Behavior, 50 S. Tex. L. Rev. 493 (Spring 2009); NEED LINK SR Peppet, Can Saints Negotiate-A Brief Introduction to the Problems of Perfect Ethics in Bargaining, 7 Harvard Negotiation Law Rev. 83 (2002), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles/558
Come to class prepared to discuss whether you share Peppet's concerns and why or why not.
Week 10
March 25th
Mindfulness Practice & discussion
Mindfulness & law; history/ present/ future.
Class Assignment: Magee, R. Legal Education as Contemplative Inquiry, 3 Journal of Contemplative Inquiry 8(2016) https://digscholarship.unco.edu/joci/vol3/iss1/7
To turn in, Please prepare a reflection paper(300-500 words) on what you think of Magee's vision of legal education.
March 27th
Mindfulness Practice & discussion
No regularly scheduled class; reserved for Make-up