Study

This one-unit readings course will meet on Thursdays from 4-5:50 PM during the first half of the spring semester. Students will have the opportunity to study and discuss ideas about leadership in a number of settings and law-related fields. Topics will include: (1) leadership within a law school (the respective roles of the Dean, administration, faculty, and student leaders); (2) the need for legal education to train future leaders (and ways to do it); (3) leadership in the judiciary; (4) leadership in the corporate law firm; (5) leadership in governmental institutions; and (6) leadership (or its absence) in American politics.
This one-unit readings course will meet on Thursdays from 4-5:50 PM during the first half of the spring semester. Students will have the opportunity to study and discuss ideas about leadership in a number of settings and law-related fields. Topics will include: (1) leadership within a law school (the respective roles of the Dean, administration, faculty, and student leaders); (2) the need for legal education to train future leaders (and ways to do it); (3) leadership in the judiciary; (4) leadership in the corporate law firm; (5) leadership in governmental institutions; and (6) leadership (or its absence) in American politics.

Readings will likely include excerpts from Deborah Rhode’s 2013 book Lawyers as Leaders; excerpts from Jean Edward Smith’s biography of Chief Justice John Marshall; contributions to a recent Stanford Law Review symposium on Lawyers and Leadership; academic work on judicial statesmanship; news articles about relevant current events; and an article Professor Siegel is writing that seeks to develop a restraining role morality for presidents and members of Congress that is similar to what constitutional law scholars have come to expect of federal judges (even if they are frequently disappointed).

Special Notes:

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Spring 2018

Course Number	Course Credits	Evaluation Method	Instructor
611.13	Course Credits 1	Reflective Writing Class participation	Neil S. Siegel
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