ABSTRACT
This chapter examines law school student wellbeing from a remedial standpoint. It considers student discomfort, possible remedial options, and makes some recommendations to promote a positive law student culture to graduate a group of engaged, connected and confident lawyers. Engaging with the complexity and challenge of law school is connected with the students' own motivations and values rather than drowning them with experience-erasing abstraction, is essential for psychological health and wellbeing. The majority of students stay psychologically healthy, and go on to highly active practice in their post-law school lives. While recognizing the need to address systemic wellbeing-impairing problems in the law school environment, positive goals are focused. If the law school faculty demonstrates respect for the practice of law and advocate healthy living habits, law students may feel healthier. By engaging in meaningful struggle with supported autonomy, a law student may immunize himself or herself to the psychological distress caused by disengagement, isolation, hopelessness and helplessness.
