Shailini George
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law
B.S., Miami University
JD, Boston College Law School
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 727-562-7726
Course
Legal Research & Writing, Professional Identity and Well-Being
Biography
Shailini Jandial George is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law and Professor of Law Emerita at Suffolk University Law School, where she taught legal writing, professional identity and well-being, and legal writing for more than two decades. Her teaching and scholarship focus on the intersection of legal education, attorney well-being, mindfulness, professional identity formation, and learning science. A nationally recognized leader in these fields, she has served in numerous leadership roles with the Association of American Law Schools, the Legal Writing Institute, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being.
Professor George is the author of The Law Student's Guide to Doing Well and Being Well (Carolina Academic Press 2021) and co-author of Mindful Lawyering: The Key to Creative Problem Solving (Carolina Academic Press 2018). Her scholarship includes the forthcoming book chapter Mindfulness and Professional Identity, as well as law review articles addressing mindfulness, well-being, cognitive science, legal education, and professional development, including The Cure for the Distracted Mind: Why Law Schools Should Teach Mindfulness (Duquesne Law Review), Teaching the Smartphone Generation: How Cognitive Science Can Improve Learning in Law School (Maine Law Review), and Promoting In-Depth Analysis: A Three-Part Approach to Teaching Analogical Reasoning to Novice Legal Writers (Cumberland Law Review). Her work has been featured in law reviews, academic publications, professional journals, and national media outlets, and she is a frequent speaker on lawyer and law student well-being, professional identity formation, and legal education.