Offering and Teaching Mindfulness in Law Schools

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By Tim Iglesias*

Mindfulness is a form of meditation in which a person focuses her attention on her breathing to anchor herself in the present moment.[1] When thoughts,feelings, or anything else attracts her attention away from the breath, she might briefly acknowledge what it was that took her attention and then, without any judgment, return her attention to her breathing.

Over the last decade, mindfulness courses have proliferated in law schools nationwide.[2] Now is an appropriate time to ask two interconnected questions: First, what are we teaching in these courses? And second, how do we attract students to these courses?

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