{"id":106125,"date":"2023-12-20T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=activity_engagement&#038;p=106125"},"modified":"2024-01-23T10:01:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T15:01:26","slug":"professor-robert-volk-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"activity_engagement","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/engagements\/professor-robert-volk-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Robert Volk Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the Professor Robert Volk Lecture Series, &#8220;<span>Mindfulness, Well-Being, and You&#8221; <\/span>presented by Professor Shailini George, author of <em>The Law Student\u2019s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suffolk.edu\/academics\/faculty\/s\/j\/sjgeorge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Shailini George<\/a> teaches legal writing and a 1L well-being and professional identity formation course, and her scholarship focuses in the areas of lawyer well-being, mindfulness, and the cognitive science of learning.\u00a0 She is the author of <em>The Law Student\u2019s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cap-press.com\/books\/isbn\/9781531021559\/The-Law-Students-Guide-to-Doing-Well-and-Being-Well\">Carolina Academic Press<\/a><span> 2021<\/span>), as well as law review articles on <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.mainelaw.maine.edu\/mlr\/vol66\/iss1\/5\/\">distraction and the cognitive science of learning<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dsc.duq.edu\/dlr\/vol53\/iss1\/11\/\">why law students need mindfulness training<\/a>. Professor George is a member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court\u2019s Standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being and co-chairs its Legal Education Subcommittee. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Well-Being in Law as well as the Executive Committee for the AALS Balance and Wellbeing in Law Section and was the winner of the section\u2019s 2022 award for her work on law student well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the Professor Robert Volk Lecture Series, &#8220;Mindfulness, Well-Being, and You&#8221; presented by Professor Shailini George, author of The Law Student\u2019s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well.\u00a0 Professor Shailini George teaches legal writing and a 1L well-being and professional identity formation course, and her scholarship focuses in the areas of lawyer well-being, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20326,"featured_media":0,"template":"","engagement_topic":[],"engagement_status":[3977],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_engagement\/106125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_engagement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/activity_engagement"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_engagement\/106125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106128,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_engagement\/106125\/revisions\/106128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"engagement_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement_topic?post=106125"},{"taxonomy":"engagement_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement_status?post=106125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}