Legally Mindful
What he got, a few years later, was a full mindfulness curriculum at the school—the first of its kind in the United States. Some students who took Halpern’s first course—”Effective and Sustainable Law Practice: The Meditative Perspective”—described it as “the most important course they took in law school,” says Halpern. This new curriculum opens up the opportunity to deepen practice, both meditative and legal. “If [students] conclude early on they want to have a career in which mindfulness is going to be a central element of how they practice law, they will be able to do so....