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Summary Description:

This is a program for second semester first-year students. It is an ethics program that takes half a day, in which the students hear a short lecture on ethics, especially problems raised by ethical relativism and role differentiation in ethics. The students then break up into small group sessions, each led by a faculty member who has had experience as a practicing lawyer, or a currently practicing lawyer. The groups discuss a set of problems which was given them before the program to study.

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Program History:
This program started approximately ten years ago. I wrote the materials continued to revise them over the years. Initially, the program was part of the orientation program for incoming students. It was moved to the second semester because, as part of the the orientation program it was a bit overwhelming for entering students.

The program was originally much longer than it is, and the opening lecture was a fairly pedantic and simplified (for law students) outline of ethics as a philosophical venture. The program got shorter as did the lecture.

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Confidential Items:

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Expanded Program Description (Optional):

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Supporting Materials:

Copy of the set of problems (pdf file) to be discussed by the students in the small group sessions following the lecture.