Professor Joseline Jean-Louis Hardrick wins professionalism in legal education award
Associate Professor Joseline Jean-Louis Hardrick and Roland Sanchez-Medina.
The Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Professionalism presented Cooley Law School Associate Professor Joseline Jean-Louis Hardrick this year’s Law Faculty/Administrator Award, recognizing her outstanding commitment to professionalism in legal education.
The award, presented at the recent Annual Florida Bar Convention in Boca Raton, honors faculty or administrators at Florida’s accredited law schools who demonstrate excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service — qualities that support the committee’s mission to promote the core values of character, competence, civility, and commitment in the legal system.
Prior to teaching, Professor Hardrick was an attorney at Bush Ross and, before that, she clerked for two federal judges. While working in the federal judiciary, she founded Journey to Esquire, a program designed to mentor and formally train law students, provide scholarships, and cultivate leadership skills in aspiring lawyers.
On campus, she is known to “demonstrated a steadfast commitment to professionalism in legal education through her courses in Constitutional Law and Criminal Law, as well as through her Professionalism in Practice Series for incoming law students. She also created and teaches Florida Bar Exam Essay Mechanics, where she employs and teaches metacognitive strategies to help students engage in deeper learning and improve their bar passage rates.”
Professor Hardrick’s coaching program helps complement bar exam preparation through student/professor personalized mentorship; individual feedback; targeted check-ins; encouraging membership on campus organizations that foster professionalism and leadership; and hosting bar exam writing seminars.
“Professor Joseline Jean-Louis Hardrick is the embodiment of professionalism in legal education and the legal profession,” said former colleague Daniela Mendez. “Through her teaching, scholarship, mentorship, and leadership, she has shaped the next generation of ethical and competent attorneys who will carry forward the ideals of character, competence, civility, and commitment.”
