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Good-Bye Christopher Columbus Langdell?, K.K. Duvivier
Good-Bye Christopher Columbus Langdell?, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
The call of this Article was to take "A Prospective Look" at Environmental and Natural Resources Law for the next 40 years with a special focus on law school teaching. Daunted by the hubris involved in prognosticating so far into the future, this piece more modestly explores three areas in which law school teaching is currently changing: I. Methods of Presentation; II. Use of Skills Exercises; and III. Influence of Digital Technologies and the Internet. To add an empirical component, the author canvassed AALS members about pedagogies they used both in class and outside of classroom time, as well as …
Using Student Evaluation Data To Examine And Improve Your Program, David I.C. Thomson
Using Student Evaluation Data To Examine And Improve Your Program, David I.C. Thomson
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
At many schools, directing a legal writing program today is quite different than it was even 10 years ago. As LRW faculties mature and the individual faculty members grow in the profession, the need for a “top-down” director is lessening or going away in many programs. However, in many schools there remains a valuable leader/coach sort of role for a director, whether that person rotates, coordinates, or however it works in practice that is best for the school. This new sort of director is ideally someone who is able to encourage and support a culture of programmatic excellence and is …
Facilitating Better Law Teaching – Now, Martin J. Katz
Facilitating Better Law Teaching – Now, Martin J. Katz
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This Essay is about solutions—real solutions that law schools can deploy right now to improve the education we provide. And it is about how to overcome obstacles to implementing those solutions right now. This is how change happens.
Teaching Professional Identity In Law School, Martin J. Katz
Teaching Professional Identity In Law School, Martin J. Katz
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Law schools are in the business of teaching students legal doctrine. Since the introduction of the case method at Harvard Law School in the late 1800s, law schools regularly have taught students how to find doctrine (research); how to identify doctrine (reading cases and other legal texts); how to understand doctrine (exploring the limits of legal texts, and applying rules from old texts to new facts); and how to critique doctrine (discussing whether a particular rule is a good one, based on the goals the rule might seek to accomplish). In more recent times, law schools’ stakeholders—including clients, firms, judges, …