LAW-2982 Leadership and Crisis Management
Many lawyers achieve both formal and informal leadership roles during their careers. This course is designed to help students explore different ways to bring out their best in responding to leadership opportunities and crises. Because leadership sometimes requires experimentation as well as preparation, students should expect to do the same in exploring some key questions. What unique strengths do they have that they can bring to a leadership role? How can they choose to act that may call for positive responses from those they may lead? How can they become more physically and mentally resilient so that they can lead better in a crisis? How can they help lead someone in crisis, perhaps so deep that they are at risk for self-harm? The answers will take time to find, but the goal is to help students and those they may lead to succeed. To that end, the course will involve no final examination, but instead a variety of readings, research, contemplative practice, journals, presentations, interactive discussions, exercises, and other activities designed to lay the foundation for a brief but reflective final paper about what the students have learned, citing their prior work. While for pedagogical reasons, the course will be graded on an honors/pass/fail basis, students should expect to view the work as a professional assignment, with all the diligence and care that effective leadership requires.
Offered
Fall Law, Spring Law