September 14, 2012
Mindfulness and the Law Conference
7:30 a.m.
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6:00 p.m.
Location: Room C5
Presented in collaboration with Washington Contemplative Lawyers
Featuring Keynote Speaker Rhonda Magee
Register at http://www.regonline.com/Mindfulness2012 or call 206-398-4233
6.0 CLE Credits Approved
Rhonda Magee is the author of the 2011 article, Educating Lawyers to Meditate?, 79 U.M.K.C. L. Rev. 535 (2011), examining the movement for contemplative practice in law and its promise as a response to long-standing and wide-ranging criticisms of contemporary legal education and law practice. For more than ten years, she has taught and written about law and legal education and race in America, with a focus in recent work on contemplative approaches to pedagogy and practice. She is Professor of Law and Dean Circle Research Scholar at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches or has taught Torts; Insurance Law and Policy; Immigration Law and Policy; Racism and Justice in American Legal History; Contemporary Issues in Race and Law and Evolving Notions of (In)equality; and Contemplative Lawyering. She currently serves as Co-Director of the University of San Francisco's Center for Teaching Excellence and she is a charter member of the Advisory Council of the Berkeley Initiative for Mindfulness and Law.
Professor Magee is a long-time practitioner of a variety of contemplative practices, including centering prayer, mindfulness and insight meditation, contemplative writing and contemplative dialogue. She is associated with the Project for the Integration of Spirituality Law and Politics, and currently serves as President of the Board of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She works with the Bay Area Working Group for Lawyers, a group of mindful lawyers, law professors and others which has sat together for many years, and she has served on the executive board of the Humanizing Legal Education Section of the American Association of Law Schools. She is committed to the development of contemplative pedagogy, law practice and leadership. Building on the insight that contemplation is essential to experiencing love-in-action through our work and relationships in the world, she aspires
toward reforms in legal education, law practice and law, guided by the compassionate heart of
contemplative practice.
Agenda: 7:30am Registration & Refreshments / 8:00 Meditation / 8:45am Program Begins / 4:30pm Program Ends / 5:00 Tea Reception
Registration Fees
Attending in-person at the law school
$125 General Registration
$105 Employed by Non-Profit or Gov't Entity
$90 Law Alumni Class 2009 and earlier
$75 Law Alumni Classes 2010, 2011 and 2012
Free for Law Students (space is limited)
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