nature v. nurture
Professor Susan Daicoff of Florida Coastal School of Law has researched and written extensively on lawyer personality traits and has a new book incorporating her work on the topic. According to Daicoff, practitioners with traits atypical of most lawyers – that is, those with a feeling decision-making preference or a moral decision-making style known as an ethic of care – are more likely to be dissatisfied with the traditional adversarial practice of law. They may be better suited to practicing what Daicoff calls comprehensive law. The distinct modes, or “vectors,” of the comprehensive law movement all aim to foster human wellbeing and consider factors beyond strict legal rights and duties - such as relationships, needs, values, goals and morals – in resolving issues.
