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dc.contributor.authorLord, Phil
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-22T18:58:20Z
dc.date.available2022-08-22T18:58:20Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationLord, Phil, Cultivating Humility. (2021) 55:3 The Law Teacher 364, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3726628en_US
dc.identifier.citationPhil Lord (2021) Cultivating humility, The Law Teacher, 55:3, 364-376, DOI: 10.1080/03069400.2020.1848280
dc.identifier.urihttps://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/4988
dc.description.abstractThis article focusses on the role of humility in the law school. It argues in favour of a culture where humility is consciously cultivated in law students. Section I considers the grading curve, a quintessentially North American attribute of almost all law schools. It analyses and theorises the curve and its effect in cultivating humility. It suggests that, while the curve can have a humbling effect, this effect is felt irregularly among law students and comes with significant and often discounted consequences. This article argues that a model where humility is more consciously cultivated could minimise these consequences. Section II provides such an alternative, arguing in favour of law professors showing humility and vulnerability. It depicts this alternative as both a partial antidote to the grading curve’s problems and a key starting point in inviting students to be vulnerable and constitutively challenging what it means to be a lawyer.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.sourcehttps://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2020.1848280
dc.subjectHumilityen_US
dc.subjectLegal educationen_US
dc.subjectAssessmenten_US
dc.subjectVulnerabilityen_US
dc.subjectGrading curveen_US
dc.titleCultivating humilityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.source.urlhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3726628en_US
dc.source.urlDOI: 10.1080/03069400.2020.1848280


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