Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leardership

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The Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership is a semiannual double blind-refereed publication organized by the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Creighton University. The journal seeks to uphold the characteristics of Jesuit education and values the development of both knowledge and the individual by presenting research and discussions on diverse leadership topics in the following fields of practices: Pre K -12 Education, Higher Education, Healthcare, Business, Government, Military, Non-profit.

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    Some Quick Fixes
    (Creighton University, 2019-06) Kramer, Larry
    As legal education incorporates more clinical offerings into the three-year JD curriculum, it becomes more like the training of other professionals. But this isn’t enough. Other professionals also are expected to serve post-graduation apprenticeships before they are deemed fully prepared to practice and so licensed to do so. Building an apprenticeship model into post-graduation legal training is a step toward redressing what are inaccurately perceived as shortfalls of legal education. Another step would be moving away from the current one-size-fits-all JD to include alternatives that involve less lengthy and intensive training and certification for specific legal tasks.
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    The Limits of Markets in a World Where Values Matter
    (Creighton University, 2019-06) O'Meara, Gregory J.
    Professor Gillian Hadfield’s astute Rules for a Flat Worldproposes a private market solution to rule-making because the current legislative or regulatory framework no longer meets the needs of a fast-paced digital economy. Further, lawyers have largely priced themselves out of the reach of many who would benefit from their services. By laying out Habermas’s criticisms of the flaws in social integration created by market mechanisms, the paper warns that Hadfield’s reliance on the market may import undesirable consequences into her proposal because the market structurally fails to address the human rights of many workers in the global economy. The paper then considers values such as dignity as proposed in Catholic Social Thought as a leavening agent to strengthen Hadfield’s paper from the standpoint of human rights.
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    Reclothing the Legal Emperor: Justice, Equity, and Governance in the Flat World
    (Creighton University, 2019-06) Strand, Palma Joy
    In Rules for a Flat World, Hadfield delivers a paradigm-shifting wakeup call about law coming up short in today’s world and proposes creating markets for legal rules to enable the development of broad-based legal infrastructure that can meet current and future demand. I am less confident that markets are the preferred pattern for the emperor’s new wardrobe because law hearkens to non-market values. Aspirations to justice and equity lie at the heart of the enterprise of law, and they should be touchstones in transforming law for today’s flat world. Moreover, governance today – beyond the government-based governance generally acknowledged by lawyers – is more flat-world-friendly than we may initially realize, and our quest to transform law should be grounded in the robust and vibrant network of deliberation, policy-development and policy-implementation arrangements, and conflict engagement and resolution that already exists.
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    A Case for Disrupting the System of Legal Education
    (Creighton University, 2019-06) Gonzales, Kathy
    This essay is focused on the role which law schools might play in “reinventing” the law student for a more robust role in an increasingly complex global economy. The case is presented for law schools to embrace and promote a collaborative orientation toward legal conflict and the role which lawyers have to play as problem solvers. Principles from systems thinking as well as a real-world example are utilized to illustrate why this change is imperative.
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    Barriers to Adaptation in Legal Education and the Critical Importance of Simply Caring
    (Creighton University, 2019-06) McGreal, Paul E.
    In her provocative book Rules for a Flat World, Professor Gillian Hadfield makes the important point that our ossified legal system does not meet the needs of our dynamic society. And she rightly notes that legal education is not an ally in meeting this challenge. To move forward, then, legal education must innovate. This essay offers the modest hunch that non-profit higher education can innovate at lower cost by mimicking the successes of their for-profit peers, in effect leveraging for-profit higher education as a form of research and development. Even if this hunch has some validity, though, it does not say what shape that innovation will take, and whether it can promote the needed change that Professor Hadfield urges.