Experiential Education in the Law School Curriculum

Experiential Education in the Law School Curriculum
Author: Emily Grant
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Experiential learning
ISBN: 9781611636901

The mandate for more experiential education raises a fundamental question for law teachers: how do we design and provide these learning opportunities for our students? This book offers answers to that question. Organized into four sections, it discusses specific techniques for incorporating various forms of experiential education into the law school curriculum, ranging from discrete modules of experiential instruction to complete curriculum reform. Section I provides the foundation for making curricular changes, with chapters providing guidance on building both institutional and student support for experiential education. Section II explores the spectrum of experiential education, starting with chapters that explain experiential modules and classroom exercises that can be included in first-year and upper-level courses before moving to chapters that describe and explain immersive learning experiences such as course-long simulations and semester-in-practice programs, culminating in chapters focusing on complete curriculum reform. Section III describes programs that offer experiential learning opportunities outside of the regular curriculum. Section IV concludes the book, offering online resources for experiential education and guidance on how to provide experiential education in an online format.

Teaching Law by Design

Teaching Law by Design
Author: Michael Hunter Schwartz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781611637014

Professors Michael Hunter Schwartz, Sophie Sparrow, and Gerry Hess, leaders in legal education, have collaborated to offer a second edition of their book. Applying the research on teaching and learning, this book guides new and experienced law teachers through the process of designing and teaching a course. The book addresses how to plan a course, design a syllabus, plan individual class sessions, engage and motivate students, use a variety of teaching techniques, assess student learning, and how to be a life-long learner as a teacher. New chapters focus on creating lasting learning, experiential learning, and troubleshooting common teaching challenges.

Halloween Law

Halloween Law
Author: Victoria Sutton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2012
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780983802440

Halloween Law is a spirited guide through law school study starting with that first scary year. Looking at the law through the lens of Halloween proves the old rule that truth is stranger than fiction. Halloween cases that conjure up issues in constitutional law, criminal law, tort law, property law and contract law introduce you to the first year curriculum. If you survive the first year, you can move on to several upper level courses for those who dare --- employment law, oil and gas law and lots of local government law creep into the Halloween Law experience. Halloween Law will leave you ready to deal with any case from the crypt. Halloween Law --- now that's the spirit!

A 5 Is Against the Law!

A 5 Is Against the Law!
Author: Kari Dunn Buron
Publisher: AAPC Publishing
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2009-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781931282352

A guide to social interaction for autistic young people provides a five-point scale to help in determining what behavior is acceptable and gives examples of different behaviors and how they appear to others.

Lawyering Skills in the Doctrinal Classroom

Lawyering Skills in the Doctrinal Classroom
Author: Tammy Pettinato Oltz
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2020
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781531001995

"After decades of taking a back seat to doctrine, lawyering skills have lately become the star of the legal education reform movement. Few law schools continue to question whether essential lawyering skills such as legal writing, research, and advocacy deserve a prominent place in the curriculum. Yet law schools continue to struggle with an artificial split between "doctrinal" courses and "skills" courses-a split that ignores best practices and undermines student learning. In this book, which includes an Introduction by Sophie Sparrow, more than twenty law professors who have figured out how to bridge the gap show why integrating skills into traditional doctrinal courses is crucial to student learning and offer proven strategies for how to do it"--

One L

One L
Author: Scott Turow
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429939567

One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education; it brings alive the anxiety and competiveness--with others and, even more, with oneself--that set the tone in this crucible of character building. Each September, a new crop of students enter Harvard Law School to begin an intense, often grueling, sometimes harrowing year of introduction to the law. Turow's group of One Ls are fresh, bright, ambitious, and more than a little daunting. Even more impressive are the faculty. Will the One Ls survive? Will they excel? Will they make the Law Review, the outward and visible sign of success in this ultra-conservative microcosm? With remarkable insight into both his fellows and himself, Turow leads us through the ups and downs, the small triumphs and tragedies of the year, in an absorbing and thought-provoking narrative that teaches the reader not only about law school and the law but about the human beings who make them what they are. In the new afterword for this edition of One L, the author looks back on law school from the perspective of ten years' work as a lawyer and offers some suggestions for reforming legal education.

Get a Running Start

Get a Running Start
Author: David C. Gray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781634596831

Softbound - New, softbound print book.

Mindfulness & Professional Responsibility

Mindfulness & Professional Responsibility
Author: Scott L. Rogers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2012
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780977345540

In Mindfulness & Professional Responsibility-A Guidebook for Integrating Mindfulness into the Law School Curriculum, Scott Rogers and Jan Jacobowitz share with readers their methodology for weaving together mindfulness and professional responsibility in the classroom. Readers are offered a glimpse into their popular University of Miami School of Law course, Mindful Ethics: Professional Responsibility for Lawyers in the Digital Age, and its creative curriculum that draws upon the application of traditional professional responsibility issues in the context of social media. Intended to introduce teachers to mindfulness practices and offer a method of integrating it into their classrooms, the book's largest section contains numerous mindfulness demonstrations, exercises, and insights. These exercises, derived from the Jurisight(r) program created by Scott Rogers to teach mindfulness to law students and lawyers, are easy to follow and specifically adapted to the professional responsibility context. To illuminate the context in which these teachings are shared, readers are offered an overview of the practice of mindfulness, a look at the neuroscience research exploring its benefits, and an historical look at mindfulness in legal education. The book is a terrific read for anyone interested in innovative education. Due to the breath of the book's mindfulness content, readers will find its to serve not only as a vehicle for enhancing the educational process, but also as a critical component in decision making and as an important life skil

Subversive Legal History

Subversive Legal History
Author: Russell Sandberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781032044415

The trouble with law schools -- The problem with legal history -- Subversive legal history -- The F in feminist legal history -- The perils of periodisation -- Counterfactual legal history -- The parallel world of legal geography -- We are all legal historians now.

Integrating Socio-Legal Studies into the Law Curriculum

Integrating Socio-Legal Studies into the Law Curriculum
Author: Caroline Hunter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1137016035

An important collection examining how socio-legal studies and empirical legal research can be integrated into the law curriculum, looking at both core qualifying subjects and stand-alone socio-legal modules, and considering theoretical and methodological approaches combined with practical examples.