This book offers comparative perspectives across jurisdictions, and utilises a range of theoretical lenses (including socio-legal, psychological and ethical theories) in analysing well-being and legal education in law:
The ethics of well-being
Self-care as a professional virtue for lawyers
Values
Well-being and a positive professional identity in the legal profession
Determined to be professional, ethical and well
The information gap
Widening the approach to ethics teaching and positively affecting the ethical professional identity of trainee solicitors in Ireland
Connectivity, socialisation and identity formation
Which hat shall I wear today? Exploring the professional and ethical implications of law clinic supervision
Clinical legal education and the hidden curriculum in the neoliberal university in England and Wales
Resilience, positive motivation and professional identity
Meditation in legal education
Identity, well-being and law students
Review:
If you are looking for a book with strong research evidence and comparative studies, this book will be a good fit for you. Providing innovative and tested research methodologies and strategies for educating for well-being, this book highlights the importance of promoting a positive professional identity at law school. Therefore, if you are seeking for evidential support and research findings relating to well-being in law, this book will be a great starting point.
Personal favourite: Chapter 13 Identity, well-being and law students
This Chapter illustrates how past, present and future identities affect law students’ sense of self and implications for well-being. By explaining how our social interactions and pre-university experiences could influence our present identities, this chapter delineates why law students always suffer immense stress. If you sometimes wonder why you tend to follow the herd and are constantly anxious that you are not as good as others, this chapter might provide some insights for you.
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