SpringerBriefs in Education Wellbeing and the Legal Academy Kartoniert (TB)

This book provides a novel contribution to the wider bodies of literature on student and academic wellbeing by including a series of rich and nuanced discussions of specific aspects of the wellbeing of legal academics. It contains original research contributions on this topic drawing on insights from law education and psychology and throws a spotlight on an emerging field of interest. In particular it focuses attention on the need to understand the implications of workload communication competence and community for academic wellbeing with the collection providing insight as to the amelior ation of stress linked to these themes. Reference will be made to the key factors which influence each of these themes such as the neo-liberal academy the contours and staffing of the law school the impact of COVID-19 and the role of values and ethics. Relevant theoretical perspectives relating to these themes including self-determination theory and the notion of an ethic of care will also be discussed.