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Erasing Boundaries: Inter-School Collaboration And Its Pedagogical Opportunities, David I.C. Thomson, Ian Gallacher, Amy R. Stein, Robin Boyle

Faculty Publications

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This article, based on a presentation that we gave at the AALS conference in New York in January of 2014, suggests that technology opens up new possibilities for law schools by allowing students from different schools to participate in complex inter-school simulations that can, if carefully prepared, teach important lessons about lawyering skills, behavior, and provide rich opportunities for the development of professional identity. It can, in short, deepen and enrich the experiential learning opportunities that law schools offer. The article does not propose that law school faculty should teach or grade students from another school, but that the …