Research Topics
Law Student Professional Development and Formation – Neil Hamilton and Louis Bilionis (2022)
Professionalism Clearly Defined – Neil Hamilton (2008)
Empirical Research on the Core Competencies Needed to Practice Law: What do Clients, New Lawyers, and Legal Employers Tell Us – Neil Hamilton (2014)
Law-Firm Competency Models and Student Professional Success: Building on a Foundation of Professional Formation/Professionalism – Neil Hamilton (2013)
Ethical Leadership in Professional Life – Neil Hamilton (2008)
The Qualities of a Professional Lawyer – Neil Hamilton (2014)
Analyzing Common Themes in Legal Scholarship in Professionalism – Neil Hamilton (2012)
Connecting Prospective Law Students’ Goals to the Competencies that Clients and Legal Employers Need to Achieve More Competent Graduates and Stronger Applicant Pools and Employment Outcomes – Neil Hamilton (2019)
Standard 303 and the Development of Student Professional Identity: A Framework for the Intentional Exploration of the Profession's Core Values - Neil Hamilton, Jerome Organ, David Grenardo, Louis Bilionis, Barbara Glesner Fines (2023)
The Positive Empirical Relationship of Professionalism to Effectiveness in the Practice of Law – Neil Hamilton (2010)
Answering the Skeptics on Fostering Ethical Professional Formation – Neil Hamilton (2011)
Legal Education’s Ethical Challenge: Empirical Research on How Most Effectively to Foster Each Student’s Professional Formation (Professionalism) – Neil Hamilton and Verna Monson (2012)
Empirical Evidence that Legal Education Can Foster Student Professionalism/Professional Formation to Become an Effective Lawyer – Neil Hamilton, Verna Monson, and Jerry Organ (2013)
Fostering Professional Formation (Professionalism): Lessons from the Carnegie Foundation’s Five Studies on Educating Professionals – Neil Hamilton (2011)
Thirty Reflection Questions to Help Each Student Find Meaningful Employment and Develop an Integrated Professional Identity (Professional Formation) – Neil Hamilton and Jerry Organ (2016)
Leadership of Self: Each Student Taking Ownership Over Continuous Professional Development/Self-Directed Learning – Neil Hamilton (2018)
A Professional Formation/Professionalism Challenge: Many Students Need Help with Self-Directed Learning Concerning Their Professional Development Toward Excellence – Neil Hamilton (2015)
Each Law Student Must Take Increasing Ownership Over Professional Development During Law School – Neil Hamilton and Jerry Organ (2018)
Encouraging Each Student's Personal Responsibility for Core Competencies Including Professionalism – Neil Hamilton, Verna Monson, and Jerry Organ (2012)
Ethical Professional (Trans)Formation: Themes from Interviews About Professionalism with Exemplary Lawyers – Neil Hamilton and Verna Monson (2012)
Helping Each Law Student Develop Affirmative Evidence of Cross-Cultural Competency – Neil Hamilton and Jeff Maleska (2016)
Professional Formation/Professionalism's Foundation: Engaging Each Student's and Lawyer's Tradition on the Question 'What Are My Responsibilities to Others?' – Neil Hamilton, Madeline Coulter, and Marie Coulter (2016)
Internalizing a Fiduciary Mindset to Put the Client First – Neil Hamilton (2017)
The next Steps of a Formation-of-Student-Professional Identity Social Movement: Building Bridges Among the Three Key Stakeholders – Faculty and Staff, Students, and Legal Employers and Clients – Neil Hamilton (2017)
Assessing Professionalism: Measuring Progress in the Formation of an Ethical Professional Identity – Neil Hamilton (2008)
Effectiveness Requires Listening: How to Assess and Improve Listening Skills – Neil Hamilton (2011)
Fostering and Assessing Law Student Teamwork and Team Leadership Skills – Neil Hamilton (2019)
Professional-Identity/Professional-Formation/Professionalism Learning Outcomes: What Can We Learn About Assessment From Medical Education? – Neil Hamilton (2017)
What Legal Education Can Learn from Medical Education About Competency-Based Learning Outcomes Including Those Related to Professional Formation (Professionalism) – Neil Hamilton and Sarah Schaefer (2015)
Formation-of-an-Ethical-Professional-Identity (Professionalism) Learning Outcomes and E-Portfolio Formative Assessments – Neil Hamilton (2017)
Fostering Professionalism Through Mentoring – Neil Hamilton and Lisa Brabbit (2006)
Competitive Coping Strategies in the American Legal Academy – Jerry Organ, Bernard Buck, and Emma Raisel (2019)
Net Tuition Trends by LSAT Category from 2010 to 2014 with Thoughts on Variable Return on Investment – Jerry Organ (2017)
Better Understanding the Scope of Conditional Scholarship Programs Among American Law Schools – Jerry Organ (2013)
Reflections on the Decreasing Affordability of Legal Education – Jerry Organ (2013)
How Scholarship Programs Impact Students and the Culture of Law School – Jerry Organ (2011)
Marianist Law Schools: Demonstrating The Courage To Be Catholic - David Grenardo (2022)
Suffering in Silence: The Survey of Law Student Well Being and the Reluctance of Law Students to Seek Help for Substance Use and Mental Health Concerns – Jerry Organ, David Jaffe, and Katherine Bender (2016)
Helping Law Students Get the Help They Need: An Analysis of Data Regarding Law Students’ Reluctance to Seek Help and Policy Recommendations for a Variety of Stakeholders – Jerry Organ, David Jaffe, and Katherine Bender (2015)
What Do We Know About the Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction of Lawyers? A Meta-Analysis of Research on Lawyer Satisfaction and Well-Being – Jerry Organ 2011
The Phantom Menace to Professional Identity Formation and Law School Success: Imposter Syndrome - David Grenardo (2022)
Why Should I Become an Associate at a Large Law Firm? And If I Do, Then What Should I Expect and How Do I Succeed and Survive? - David Grenardo (2014)
How A Person of Faith Can Address Imposter Syndrome in Law School - David Grenardo (2023)
Improving the Law School Classroom and Experience Through Prayer: An Empirical Study - David Grenardo (2015)