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Golden Gate University School of Law

2015

Experiential learning

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From Mock Trial To Real World Court, Ggu Center Preps Litigators, Lawdragon.Com Aug 2015

From Mock Trial To Real World Court, Ggu Center Preps Litigators, Lawdragon.Com

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When Experiential Learning Takes Center Stage - Not Yet, Wes R. Porter Jan 2015

When Experiential Learning Takes Center Stage - Not Yet, Wes R. Porter

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While experiential learning for decades has been part of the law school experience, it was not the part traditionally portrayed as integral to a student’s path to becoming an attorney. Law schools today, however, appear to celebrate and even extoll experiential learning and the once isolated pockets of law schools which brought it into the mainstream. Unfortunately, closer inspection reveals that the experiential learning movement in law school may be more marketing and spin than an honest shift in pedagogy, curriculum and culture. The next step for experiential learning may be the most difficult: progressing beyond the marketing doublespeak and …