In its seventh year, the Holloran Center continues to focus on its mission to help the next generation form professional identities with a moral core of service to and responsibility for others. The Center’s national impact continues to increase. John Berry, former chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Professionalism Committee and past-winner of the ABA’s highest award, the Michael Franck Award for Professionalism, recently commented on the work of the Center:
The Holloran Center’s greatest contribution is in uniting the best of legal research and analysis with a real down-to-earth desire to find ways to impact the legal profession and its lawyer participants in a positive way.
The research conducted by the Holloran Center is the most important that can be done for the future of our profession. It matters little if we have smarter and more skilled lawyers if we do not find a way to also make sure they are ethical and motivated in all they do with a well-formed professional identity and orientation toward service. The Holloran Center is leading the way.
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News from the Holloran Center
On the Road
On the Road: Professor Neil Hamilton, director of the Holloran Center, is visiting six states across the nation this spring giving guest presentations based on the topic of "Legal Education's Ethical Challenge: Empirical Research on How Most Effectively to Foster Each Student's Professional Formation (Professionalism)." Law schools include Mercer University (Georgia), Santa Clara (California), Pepperdine (California), New Mexico, and Hofstra and Fordham (New York).
National Jurist Magazine Selects Jerry Organ to Top 25 List
Organ in top 25 of most influential people in legal education
Michaelson Named Holloran Center Fellow
The Holloran Center is honored to announce the appointment of Professor Christopher Michaelson from the Opus College of Business as a Fellow. According to Professor Neil Hamilton, Director of the Holloran Center, "Professor Michaelson will make a great contribution to the Center's mission of interdisciplinary research and curriculum development focusing on the formation of business and law students into ethical leaders. We are all looking forward a great deal to working with him to strengthen our ties to the Opus College of Business faculty and to do more outreach to foster professional formation for business managers.
Key Publications and Scholarship
Empirical Evidence that Legal Education Can Foster Student Professionalism/Professional Formation
Forthcoming, University of St Thomas Law Journal, 2013
Encouraging Each Student's Personal Responsibility for Core Competencies Including Professionalism
Prof. Law. (2012)
Legal Education’s Ethical Challenge: Empirical Research on How Most Effectively to Foster Each Student’s Professional Formation (Professionalism)
U. St. Thomas L.J. (2012).
Fostering Professional Formation (Professionalism): Lessons from the Carnegie Foundation’s Five Studies on Educating Professionals
Creighton L. Rev (2012).
Analyzing Common Themes in Legal Scholarship on Professionalism
U of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No.11-24 (2011).