Study

A group of eight students will travel to northwest Wyoming over Spring Break for an intensive four-day seminar on professional identity at the site of one of the concentration camps where the US government – with major involvement by lawyers – imprisoned people of Japanese ancestry on the basis of race between 1942 and 1945. Invoking the power of place, the seminar uses the example of lawyers from many levels and many walks of professional life to foster deep reflection on the sorts of values, commitments, and well-being practices to which law students can commit themselves as they launch their careers. By examining the many factors that led decent and talented lawyers to develop, support, and defend a system of mass oppression, students have the opportunity to consider the risks and temptations they will encounter in their own professional lives and to point themselves toward professional identities of which they will be proud. By application. For 2Ls and 3Ls only.