Life Changing Moments: Learning to Accept Your Students' Choices

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2004

Publication Title

Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing

Keywords

perspective, law school, legal writing, learning experience, life changing moment

Abstract

This article discusses how a law professor's experiences with her daughter has helped her gain perspective concerning her law school career. Specifically, the author discusses how her daughter's leukemia developed her perspective with regard to academic bureaucracies. The author also recounts how her daughter taught her to allow her law students to be independent and make their own choices, even if it leads to failure.

Volume

13

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