Wellbeing and Transitions in Law: Legal Education and the Legal Profession

by Emma Jones (Editor), Caroline Strevens (Editor)

Overview

This book examines transitions from law school to the legal profession, and their impact on wellbeing. There is a significant body of evidence that suggests law student wellbeing is particularly problematic, partially due to the distinctive nature of law as a discipline. Similarly, there is a growing body of international evidence demonstrating poor levels of wellbeing within the legal profession, with lawyers suffering higher levels of stress, anxiety and depression than the general population. To date there has been no detailed consideration of the impact of these transitions on wellbeing, or discussion of the best ways to ameliorate any negative effects. This edited collection will explore a range of transitions, from entry into law school through to progression to managerial roles within the legal profession. Rather than focusing on discrete areas or chunks of time, this book focuses on the process of transitioning holistically. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031276545
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	08/09/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Emma J. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Caroline Strevens is Head of Department at the Portsmouth Law School, Portsmouth University, UK.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Synthesising and developing work on wellbeing and transitions.- Chapter 2. Wellbeing and transition to law school: the complexities of confidence, community, and belonging.- Chapter 3. The Transition to Law School: A case study.- Chapter 4. A broken profession both mentally and physically: Is well-being the foundation to a healthy and resilient future?.- Part 2: Moving through Law School – Professional formation and academic study.- Chapter 5. The Virtual Happy Hour for Contract Law students: reflecting on an unplanned transition.- Chapter 6. Lessons from online pandemic pedagogy in North American law schools: Towards law student wellbeing.- Chapter 7.Student transition, sense of belonging and habitus.- Part 3: From Student to Lawyer – Vocational education and wellbeing.- Chapter 8.Transitioning to an understanding of the Autonomic Nervous System in Law.- Chapter 9. The law school and the psychology of belonging.- Chapter10. From Student to Practitioner: Exploring the transition into legal practice and the opportunity offered by self-coaching in the management of rejection.- Chapter 11. Wellbeing and vicarious trauma: Personal reflections on support for students, practitioners and clinicians in family law.- Chapter 12. Trauma Informed Legal Education: Rejecting the Stigma in Caring for Self, Client and Workplace

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"What a thrill! Jones reads Irigaray in a manner that clearly explicates core dimensions of her thought while tackling fundamental questions of ontology, subjectivity, and ethical life. As a study of complex texts and issues, it is sophisticated and illuminating. As a contribution to ethical life, it is a gift."

-John Lysaker, William R. Kenan Professor of Philosophy, Emory University.

"Deftly handling Irigaray’s past and recent texts, Emma Jones addresses problems ranging from global political apathy and political tribalism to the everydayness of disempowered living. She powerfully asks what it means to speak to one another, to think within the particularity of our shared space, and to be-together, as if our shared future depended upon it — because it does."

-Alfred Frankowski, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University. Author of The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Toward a Political Sense of Mourning and co-editor of Critical Perspectives on African Genocide: Memory, Silence, and Anti-Black Political Violence.

"A pathbreaking account of Irigaray’s relational ontology that transforms our understanding of Irigaray’s place in contemporary feminist thought. Via original readings of Irigaray’s recasting of Heidegger and Aristotle, Jones theorizes sexuate difference as relational limit and reconceptualizes subjectivity as place. Crucially, Jones shows how Irigaray’s distinctive emphasis on relation rather than identity can afford an inclusive ethics that counters transphobic gender theories. An insightful, generative book, astutely attuned to the transformative potential of Irigaray’s work.

-Rachel Jones, Associate Professor of Philosophy, George Mason University. Author of Irigaray: Towards a Sexuate Philosophy.

Editorial Reviews

Wellbeing and Transitions in Law edited by Emma Jones and Caroline Strevens is a significant contribution to the developing literature on the wellbeing of law students and legal professionals, by drawing attention to the concept of transition. … This integral volume articulates how experiencing change during one’s legal education or by working in the profession can have a destabilising impact on one’s wellbeing.” (Aysha Mazhar, The Law Teacher, November 23, 2023)

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