Thinking and feeling like a lawyer: introducing knowledge about emotion into legal ethics education

摘要: Emotion is commonly considered as a disruptive factor in legal judgment and this has impacted on educational approaches to law, ethics. The first overall aim of the thesis demonstrate why it important include knowledge about emotion legal-ethical decision-making. This achieved Chapters two three. Chapter explains what emotions are, demonstrates how involve evaluation, are connected moral ethical judgment. It acknowledged that can be but argued ability account for both positive negative influences leads better three involved ‘thinking like lawyer’. chapter builds Angela Olivia Burton’s model lawyer’, focusing specifically narrative intelligence personal intelligences (intrapersonal interpersonal). These emotion, making useful from which educate law students make judgments recognise role emotion. In used expand understanding lawyer’ legalethical including emotional aspects judgment, will ethics education more comprehensive equip reality practice. second could introduced into education. four five through case study curriculum at Law Faculty, University Technology Sydney. context curricula have been implemented Australian schools particular UTS Law. argues educating best via pervasive incremental approaches. further graduate attribute, course intended learning outcome subject objectives developed Law, provide means previous chapters. supports by demonstrating introduced, content specific teaching strategies. Two subjects chosen order an depth application using concrete examples integrated strategies, academics with framework they formulate their own strategies view achieving outcomes such as: increased awareness capabilities critically reflect analyse