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Audio Recordings
The Mindful Lawyer: Practices & Prospects for Law School, Bench, and Bar
October 29-31, 2010
UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
(see more resources from this conference on The Mindful Lawyer)
1. Meditation session with Norman Fischer (1:21, 112 MB)
2. Meditation session with Patton Hyman and Robert Chender: Working With Fear Through Contemplative Disciplines (1:27, 122 MB)
3. Taking STOCK Exercise (1:15, 104 MB)
4. Deeper Implications of Mindfulness for Conflict Resolution (1:07, 95 MB)
5. Mindfulness in Other Professions and Disciplines (1:23, 120 MB)
6. Mindfulness and Restorative Justice: Focus on an Innovative Approach to Lawyering (1:26, 123 MB)
7. Opportunities in Law Schools: Courses, Academic Support and other Co-Curricular Activities (1:34, 144 MB)
8. Putting It All Togther: What Does a Mindful Lawyer's Practice Look Like? (1:20, 111 MB)
9. Neuroscience of Mindfulness: A Deeper Exploration (1:32, 143 MB)
10. Religious, Spiritual, Secular: Situating Mindfulness (1:26, 120 MB)
11. Can Mindfulness Transform Legal Doctrine and Policy? (1:22, 109 MB)
12. Mindfulness and the Law School Experience: Student Perspectives (1:26, 107 MB)
13. Meditation Instruction For Lawyers by Norman Fischer
Effective Lawyering: A Meditation Retreat for Law Professionals and Students
Menla Mountain Retreat Center, Phoenicia, NY
1. Norman Fischer on emotions and law (1:17, 109 MB)
2. Susan B. Jordan (0:49, 70 MB)
3. Norman Fischer on trust (1:16, 108 MB)
4. Charlie Halpern on trust (0:59, 83 MB)
5. Evening panel discussion (0:22, 31 MB)
6. Norman Fischer's closing remarks (1:07, 95 MB)
Books
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Marjorie Silver |
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Steven Keeva |
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Lloyd Burton |
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George W. Kaufman |
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Benjamin Sells |
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Matthew Fox |
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Joseph Goldstein |
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Jon Kabat-Zinn |
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Jon Kabat-Zinn |
Papers and Articles
Mindful Lawyers Lead the Way to Work and Life Satisfaction
Pat Sullivan, examiner.com,
April 20, 2011
Meditation: A New Practice for Lawyers
Diane Curtis, The California Bar Journal, January 2011
The Law of Mindfulness
Barry Boyce, Mindful.org, July 2010
Quiet Justice
Charles Halpern, Greater Good, June 29, 2010
Reflections on a new course: Effective and Sustainable Lawyering: The Meditative Perspective
Charles Halpern, April 2009
Move from Being a Mindless Lawyer to a Mindful Lawyer
Stephanie West Allen, The Complete Lawyer, Jan. 14, 2009
A Mindful Practice is a Sustainable Practice
Stella Rabaut, The Complete Lawyer, Dec.12, 2008
The Mindful Lawyer and the Challenges of Diversity:
The Benefits of Mindfulness in Differently Diverse Practice Settings
By Rhonda V. Magee
Adapted from “The Mindful Law Professor and the Challenges of Diversity,” 2008.
Meditation for Lawyers (Really)
by Rasa Fournier, Midweek, December 5, 2007
Zen and the Art of Lawyering: Legal eagles find meditation a stress solution
by Heidi Benson, San Francisco Chronicle, July 30, 2007
The Mindful Lawyer
by Robert Zeglovitch
GPSolo Magazine, October/November 2006
Meditation goes to work: When conflict and stress hit you at work, try looking East to calm yourself and find better ways to cope
by H.J. Cummins
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, January 20, 2006
Maintaining Integrity and Cultivating Compassion
by Steven Schwartz
Executive Director, Center for Public Representation
Originally published in Management Information Exchange, January 2005 issue.
The Contemplative Lawyer: On the Potential Contributions of Mindfulness Meditation to Law Students and Lawyers and their Clients
by Leonard L. Riskin
7 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 1-66 (June 2002)
No Justice, No Peace. In court: Lawyers and Judges who practice dharma
by Mary Talbot
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Fall 2000, pp. 44.
Video
BUILDING A CULTURE OF EMPATHY: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES HALPERN
Charles Halpern is a founder and former Chair of the Board of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, a Scholar in Residence at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, a public interest entrepreneur, an innovator in legal education, a pioneer in the public interest law movement, and a long-time meditator.
THE MINDFUL LAWYER
View videos of sessions and presentations from The Mindful Lawyer: Practices & Prospects for Law School, Bench, and Bar.
QI GONG INSTRUCTION
Charles Halpern leading qi gong practice
Qi Gong with Charlie Halpern from Center for Contemplative Mind on Vimeo.
MINDFULNESS AND THE PRACTICE OF LAW
Charles Halpern interviews meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein on mindfulness and the practice of law:
INTERVIEW WITH DOUGLAS CHERMAK
Doug Chermak, our Law Program Director, was interviewed by Cutting Edge Law in November 2008.
In Part 1, he talks about his path to doing work in environmental law, the history and mission of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, and the retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
In Part 2, he talks about the Bay Area Law Working Group, contemplative practices, and the meditative perspective.
In Part 3, Doug talks about the experience of attending retreats and ways of maintaining the practice after retreats. He stresses that meditation is about being more engaged with our lives and how it balances our work in the external world.
And in Part 4, Doug talks about developing Continuing Legal Education credits for retreats. He mentions some of the judges who practice meditation and talks about his larger vision for societal change.
CHARLES HALPERN ON EMPATHY, MEDITATION, AND THE PRACTICE OF LAW
A talk presented at the University at Buffalo Law School, Friday, September 25, 2009 by Charles Halpern, founding Board Member of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society.