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Cultivating Versatility: The Multiple Foundations Of The Law School’S Public Mission, David Sandomierski
Cultivating Versatility: The Multiple Foundations Of The Law School’S Public Mission, David Sandomierski
Dalhousie Law Journal
Law schools should aspire to cultivate versatility. To accomplish this goal, the salient features of the law school should reflect three foundational intellectual pillars: a commitment to the rule of law and legal rationality, an emphasis on multiple legal process, and an appreciation for legal pluralism. Complementing these symbolically “vertical” pillars on which the law school’s activity rests are three transversal virtues that operate “horizontally” to brace the foundations. These include a commitment to critique, context, and diversity. Ultimately, legal educators should concern themselves with how they can best prepare their students for a wide range of contributions to society …
How Covid-19 Rekindled The Spirit Of Teaching, Nayha Acharya
How Covid-19 Rekindled The Spirit Of Teaching, Nayha Acharya
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
The abrupt end to our classes in the middle of March 2020 due to the Covid-19 situation reignited in me the real sense of what it means to be a teacher. It brought me out of the superficial notion, where being a law professor just means being someone who has students who will listen to me talk about the law, and into the deeper sense - that being a teacher involves a very special human relationship. This transition arose in me, I believe, because the Covid-19 situation forced me to slow down and sit still for a while, and that …
Train Wrecks: 3m National Teaching Fellows Explore Creating Learning And Generative Responses From Colossal Failures, William B. Strean, Patrick T. Maher, Kim Brooks
Train Wrecks: 3m National Teaching Fellows Explore Creating Learning And Generative Responses From Colossal Failures, William B. Strean, Patrick T. Maher, Kim Brooks
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
We all fail. We also like to look good and avoid looking bad. So, even though we know that taking risks and trying new approaches are important for enhancing our teaching and students’ learning (Strean, 2017), we rarely talk about our failures. Our claim in this paper is that our insecurities create a substantial barrier to improving and enriching our teaching practices. If we do not find time to take big risks, and then to explore and critically reflect on failures that result sometimes from those risks, we lose out on the chance to become better teachers; more fundamentally, we …
The World Needs More Rod Macdonald: The Potential Of Big Ideas, Kim Brooks
The World Needs More Rod Macdonald: The Potential Of Big Ideas, Kim Brooks
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In this article, the author makes the case for thinking boldly and experimentally about the possibilities for legal education and law schools and urges us to embrace the potential for big ideas. She illustrates this approach through the lens of admissions, curriculum, and research. Within each of those aspects of legal education, the article suggests some guidelines that might be used to evaluate reform proposals and proposes one major change to spur reflection.
Brent Cotter Resigns From Dal Law Faculty, Innis Christie
Brent Cotter Resigns From Dal Law Faculty, Innis Christie
Innis Christie Collection
Brent and Sandra Cotter have decided to make permanent, or at least long-term, their move back to their native Saskatchewan. After two years on leave from Dal Law School, the former Associate Dean, Dal Legal Aid Director and long-time Chair of the Admissions Committee has resigned, to continue to serve as Deputy Attorney General of Saskatchewan, a post he has held for the last two years.
Dean Christie Looks Back, Innis Christie
Dean Christie Looks Back, Innis Christie
Innis Christie Collection
My last six year, as dean of Dalhousie Law School, have been wonderful ones for me. They have at times been draining and occasionally exhilarating, always demanding, sometimes disappointing but often quite satisfying. Certainly, through those six years I have never doubted that the faculty, staff, students and alumni of Dalhousie Law School have a great law school.