SEM-6115: Seminar: Theories in Leadership and Dispute Resolution

Leadership is understood as a process of one or more people motivating other people to act in a certain way or believe a certain thing. Leadership can be studied as behavioral skills (such as competencies), cognitive beliefs (such as leader identity), and emotional abilities (such as emotional intelligence). It is the balance between ways of doing and ways of being. This course explores different frameworks of leadership included adaptive, servant, and embodied theories of leadership and applies those leadership frameworks to the work that lawyers do in resolving conflict and dispute on behalf of clients and with others as part of the client representation. Students may take this course for 2 or 3 credits. Students planning to satisfy the long paper requirement in this course, and students who have already satisfied the long paper requirement and plan to write another long paper in this course, should register for three credits.