The California Western School of Law will be hosting a conference on "Preventing and Solving Legal Problems Creatively." This is the school's "Second International Conference on Creative Problem Solving" and will be from March 4 through March 6 in San Diego. Here's how their site describes it:
"This international conference will engage in an interdisciplinary exploration of systems and techniques for preventing and solving legal problems creatively. Educators, lawyers, judges and professionals in the fields of cognitive psychology, business, neuroscience, and other fields that study preventing and solving problems are encouraged to attend."
The law school also has a Center for Creative Problem Solving that has produced videos, one of which is entitled "Preventive Law and the Multi-dimensional Lawyer." Here's the thrust of the video:
Lawyers are too often portrayed as one-dimensional: the fighter who champions individual rights. Lawyers, however, are also designers who prevent problems from arising by shaping environments that respect existing laws and respond to human needs, and they are problem solvers, seeking creative, non-adversarial solutions to problems that arise. This video introduces the roles, skills, and mentalities of the lawyer as Designer and as Problem Solver."
The tentative schedule for the conference and a registration form are on the site. "Up to 15 hours of CLE credit will be available, of which 3.5 can be for professional responsibility."
There is a limit of 120 registrants and the last time I checked 80 had already registered.
I hope to see you there.
Posted by ajlevy at January 20, 2004 10:01 AM