CHARTING NEW COURSES: LEADERSHIP IN CURRICULUM REFORM

Law school curriculum reform raises the notion of leadership in two distinct ways. First, curriculum reform is an administrative process and so is well suited to ideas of leadership. Second, legal academics should strive, in the many facets of their career, both to behave as professionals and to model professionalism to others, and leadership is an element of that professionalism. Curriculum reform therefore presents an important, if underappreciated, opportunity for legal academics to take up a leadership role. Leading a process of curriculum reform can be difficult, but there are several ways in which legal academics can improve the chances of a successful outcome.