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184. Changing the Profession and the Law School Experience – PartIIChanging the Profession and Legal Education through TherapeuticJurisprudence and other Healing Approaches to LawSusan Daicoff, Phoenix School of Law (sdaicoff@phoenixlaw.edu)This presentation will focus on the effects of teaching law as a healing profession on lawstudents, lawyers, and, ultimately, the legal profession. It will explore advantages anddisadvantages of this training, for legal personnel, and obstacles to the training. Finally, it willexplore specific ways to teach therapeutic jurisprudence, restorative justice, collaborative law,preventive law, transformative mediation, creative problem solving, and more.Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Infusing Civility into Doctrinal CoursesLori Miller, Phoenix School of Law (lmiller@phoenixlaw.edu)As a society, we are losing civility. Being polite, kind, and compassionate is much less commonin interactions with others now than in the past. This societal shift away from focusing oninterpersonal relationships toward focusing on what is best for the self is caused in part by theisolation common in using current technology. Decreased face-to-face interaction with othersleaves persons less able to fully understand the effects of their incivility on another person. It isnot a surprising, therefore, that civility is dwindling. When students arrive in law school, they aregiven the clear message that law school is very competitive, especially in the first year, whichfurther discourages civilized behavior toward their colleagues. Incorporating and encouragingcivil behavior in law school courses is critical to engender civility in interpersonal relationships.Failure to do so will not just harm the law school’s culture, but will adversely affect the legalcommunity and society in general. But how do law professors teach civility? They don’t; theyfacilitate. The key is collective consciousness: students and teacher act as one through discussionand agreement. Together, they discover the meaning of civility in law school. By properlystructuring the curriculum, students discuss and apply civility, professionalism, and integritythroughout the course using various tools, including alternative dispute resolution methods and acode of civility. By shifting their success paradigms from winning, as in a competitive model, towin-win, students hopefully will create a more compassionate, civilized, and productive legalcommunity and society.Discussant: Brooke Megan Murphy-Porth.435