Research Topics
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)
Law Student Professional Development and Formation – Neil Hamilton and Louis Bilionis (2022)
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)
Empirical Research on the Core Competencies Needed to Practice Law: What do Clients, New Lawyers, and Legal Employers Tell Us – Neil Hamilton (2014)
The Qualities of a Professional Lawyer – Neil Hamilton (2014)
Analyzing Common Themes in Legal Scholarship in Professionalism – Neil Hamilton (2012)
Law-Firm Competency Models and Student Professional Success: Building on a Foundation of Professional Formation/Professionalism – Neil Hamilton (2013)
Professionalism Clearly Defined – Neil Hamilton (2008)
Ethical Leadership in Professional Life – Neil Hamilton (2008)
Empirical Evidence that Legal Education Can Foster Student Professionalism/Professional Formation to Become an Effective Lawyer – Neil Hamilton, Verna Monson, and Jerry Organ (2013)
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)
Answering the Skeptics on Fostering Ethical Professional Formation – Neil Hamilton (2011)
Fostering Professional Formation (Professionalism): Lessons from the Carnegie Foundation’s Five Studies on Educating Professionals – Neil Hamilton (2011)
The Positive Empirical Relationship of Professionalism to Effectiveness in the Practice of Law – Neil Hamilton (2010)
Leadership of Self: Each Student Taking Ownership Over Continuous Professional Development/Self-Directed Learning – Neil Hamilton (2018)
Each Law Student Must Take Increasing Ownership Over Professional Development During Law School – Neil Hamilton and Jerry Organ (2018)
Thirty Reflection Questions to Help Each Student Find Meaningful Employment and Develop an Integrated Professional Identity (Professional Formation) – Neil Hamilton and Jerry Organ (2016)
A Professional Formation/Professionalism Challenge: Many Students Need Help with Self-Directed Learning Concerning Their Professional Development Toward Excellence – Neil Hamilton (2015)
Encouraging Each Student's Personal Responsibility for Core Competencies Including Professionalism – Neil Hamilton, Verna Monson, and Jerry Organ (2012)
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)
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)
Ethical Professional (Trans)Formation: Themes from Interviews About Professionalism with Exemplary Lawyers – Neil Hamilton and Verna Monson (2012)
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)
Formation-of-an-Ethical-Professional-Identity (Professionalism) Learning Outcomes and E-Portfolio Formative Assessments – 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)
Effectiveness Requires Listening: How to Assess and Improve Listening Skills – Neil Hamilton (2011)
Assessing Professionalism: Measuring Progress in the Formation of an Ethical Professional Identity – Neil Hamilton (2008)
Fostering Professionalism Through Mentoring – Neil Hamilton and Lisa Brabbit (2006)
Marianist Law Schools: Demonstrating The Courage To Be Catholic - David Grenardo (2022)
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)
In-House Counsel(or): The Case for Providing Integrated Mental Health Support Services to Law Students – Eric Shannon (2025)
How A Person of Faith Can Address Imposter Syndrome in Law School - David Grenardo (2023)
The Phantom Menace to Professional Identity Formation and Law School Success: Imposter Syndrome - 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)
Improving the Law School Classroom and Experience Through Prayer: An Empirical Study - David Grenardo (2015)
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)
What Do We Know About the Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction of Lawyers? A Meta-Analysis of Research on Lawyer Satisfaction and Well-Being – Jerry Organ (2011)