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45 S. Tex. L. Rev. 753 (2003-2004)
The Law Professor as Fiduciary: What Duties Do We Owe to Our Students

handle is hein.journals/stexlr45 and id is 765 raw text is: THE LAW PROFESSOR AS FIDUCIARY: WHAT
DUTIES Do WE OWE TO OUR STUDENTS
ROBERT P. SCHUWERK*
I. A BEGINNING: THE PROFESSOR-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP.758
II. LAW SCHOOL FROM THE BOTIrOM UP, OR THE WAY
THINGS ARE FOR A LOT OF LAW STUDENTS FOR MUCH
O F  TH E  T IM E  ................................................................................. 761
III. SOME MODEST PROPOSALS FOR REFORM ............................... 780
IV. A COLLABORATIVE LEARNING APPROACH TO
TEACHING A TRADITIONAL LARGE LAW SCHOOL CLASS... 790
V. A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO EXAMINING THE
CAUSES OF LAW STUDENT AND LAWYER DISTRESS ............. 795
V I.  C O NCLUSIO N  ................................................................................ 804
Law professors play a wide variety of roles. As scholars, we are
the stewards of the law. Our solemn obligation is to examine the way
the law works, both in theory and practice, and to report fully and
faithfully on what we discover. Many of us would expand on those
duties by including an obligation to propose what we believe are fairer
and more workable solutions to the legal problems that we examine.
Because we generally do not conduct our scholarly work for clients,
we are not restricted in our work, as are practicing members of the
bar, by professional obligations to select and to advocate legal
positions designed to advance our client's interests to the fullest
extent possible within the bounds of the law. Thus, we pride ourselves
on being able to provide more diverse if not more balanced analyses
on the questions we choose to examine. At the same time, especially
with the recent increase in the number of minorities and women on
our law faculties, we are better able to give voice to a wider variety of
perspectives on legal (and closely related societal and political)
* Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center. I wish to thank Professors
Edward C. Brewer, III, Timothy Floyd, Kathy Hessler, and Lawrence J. Krieger for their
helpful and supportive comments on earlier drafts of this article and law librarians Harriet
Richman and Michelle Wu for their extensive research assistance.

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