Abstract
This article examines law training as a resource for communication administration and academic leadership. It identifies legal study as a source of habits that may help administrators analyze problems, narrow disputes, practice advocacy, reason through probabilities, and attend to ethical responsibility. The discussion first reviews what legal education seeks to impart, including attention to experience, analysis, advocacy, probable judgment, and professional ethics. It then applies these assumptions to department heads, deans, and program administrators who manage scarce resources, curriculum change, faculty concerns, institutional politics, and arguments for program value. The article does not claim that lawyers make superior administrators. Instead, it suggests that selected principles from legal reasoning can inform communication administration by strengthening analysis, advocacy, ethical judgment, and practical decision making in higher education contexts.
Recommended Citation
Jamison, David
(1983)
"Law Training as Preparation for Communication Administration,"
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin: Vol. 45, Article 6.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/aca/vol45/iss1/6
