Higher Law: Can Christian Conservatives Transform Law Through Legal Education?

Wilson, Joshua C.; Hollis‐Brusky, Amanda

doi:10.1111/lasr.12364

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“…The progressive tilt of law school clinics has been a source of several critiques of legal education by conservatives (see e.g., Southworth, 2009;Teles, 2008;Wilson & Hollis-Brusky, 2018).…”

Section: Legal Education Student Debt and Career Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Faustian bargain? Rethinking the role of debt in law students' career choices

Boutcher

Houle

Raup‐Kounovksy

et al. 2023

J Empirical Legal Studies

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Despite the absence of strong empirical evidence to support the relationship, legal scholars have long argued that a model of financing legal education through student debt makes it difficult, if not impossible, for most students to take seriously a career path in government and public interest (GPI) law, where salaries are generally lower than private, corporate practice. Drawing from a multiwave, panel survey of law students, we take advantage of a unique tuition remission intervention that occurred at the founding of University of California Irvine (UCI) Law, resulting in a natural, quasi‐experiment. Using ordinary least squares regression and an instrumental variables approach, we ask whether law student debt influences the likelihood that students will (1) launch their careers in the GPI and (2) aspire to the GPI sector 5 years after graduation. We find little to no evidence that student debt is a barrier to a graduate's decision to take a position in the GPI sector at career launch or that debt is a factor in a graduate's career aspirations at UCI law school during the study period. These counterintuitive findings provoke new questions about our understanding of debt in the context of legal education and the types of interventions that might facilitate greater entry into the public sector.

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Section: Legal Education Student Debt and Career Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Faustian bargain? Rethinking the role of debt in law students' career choices

Boutcher

Houle

Raup‐Kounovksy

et al. 2023

J Empirical Legal Studies

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“…In addition, there has been a movement to reframe "law as a calling" (Wilson & Hollis-Brusky, 2014, p. 416), focusing on inward personal development, a pursuit of care for the underserved and vulnerable, and advocating for law and politics to align with Christian values (Wilson & Hollis-Brusky, 2018). Professor Michael Schutt, Director of the Institute for Christian Legal Studies, described the Christian lawyer's calling as follows:…”

Section: Regent University Juris Doctor Programmentioning

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In Faith and Practice: How Christian Doctoral Programs Address Religious Diversity Needs

Jones

Rowan

Stephens

et al. 2021

Christian Higher Education

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Many Americans identify as religious or spiritual, with a large subset of these individuals identifying as Christian. However, many doctoral training programs neglect to incorporate religion and spirituality into their curricula in an intentional and integrated way. Past national research has documented that many professionals report feeling incompetent, ill-prepared, or reticent to attend to religion and spirituality matters in their teaching and practices. In contrast, Christian doctoral programs address this problem by intentionally hiring qualified faculty who can articulate a clear faith commitment, and through curricular offerings that emphasize the integration of faith and professional practice. By doing so, they offer an approach to doctoral education that incorporates an additional dimension in terms of secular professional diversity standards. Programs like the ones outlined in this article enhance their students' and trainees' competency by attending to religion and spirituality as diversity factors. Such programs also attend to religious diversity as an essential personal dimension of life for many clientele. Furthermore, the integration of faith with academic endeavors has the potential to deepen professional identity development and to offer the added layer of integrating occupation and spiritual vocation. Three sample programs are described in this article, highlighting how each doctoral program-one in clinical psychology, one in law, and one in business administration-distinctively practices Christian integration. The benefits of these programs to students and other professional training programs are also discussed.

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“…Drawing on interviews with Muslims across California, this article illuminates the relationship between legal consciousness, lived religious experience, and the battle against inequality. Some work in law and society has illustrated the interrelationship of rights, religion, and politics (see, e.g., Chua 2019;Darian-Smith 2010;Wilson and Hollis-Brusky 2018). But much of the sociolegal literature on marginalization and disputing in twenty-first century America does not treat religion-especially Islam-seriously, and most of the literature on law and religion does not treat legal consciousness seriously.…”

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Shari‘a Consciousness: Law and Lived Religion among California Muslims

Massoud¹,

Moore²

2020

Law Soc. Inq.

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Shari‘a (commonly translated as Islamic law) is at the epicenter of anti-Muslim discourses in the United States. How do Muslims in the United States understand and experience shari‘a in the context of virulent attacks on it and on Islam and Muslims more generally? This article explores the meanings Californian Muslims give to and the intentions they derive from shari‘a when dominant discourses represent shari‘a as a cause for concern in American life. Drawing from fieldwork and interviews with Muslims across California, as well as scholarship on legal consciousness and lived religion, we document three interrelated stages of shari‘a consciousness: perceiving shari‘a and discriminatory depictions of it; educating oneself about shari‘a’s social and political relevance; and forming an intention for social action. Documenting these interrelated stages and theorizing the relationship between legal consciousness, religion, and inequality, this article reveals how religious identity formation is a significant precursor of legal mobilization and how nonstate normative orders provide interpretive frames for understanding human rights and social justice. Ultimately, legal consciousness may stem from sacred sensibilities and the desire to be a more ethical servant of God and not merely to be a more ethical subject of the state.

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Higher Law: Can Christian Conservatives Transform Law Through Legal Education?

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

A Faustian bargain? Rethinking the role of debt in law students' career choices

A Faustian bargain? Rethinking the role of debt in law students' career choices

In Faith and Practice: How Christian Doctoral Programs Address Religious Diversity Needs

Shari‘a Consciousness: Law and Lived Religion among California Muslims

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