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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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