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University of Michigan Law School

2014

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Teaching Legal History Through Legal Skills., Howard Bromberg Jan 2014

Teaching Legal History Through Legal Skills., Howard Bromberg

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I revolve my legal history courses around one methodology: teaching legal history by means of legal skills. I draw on my experience teaching legal practice and clinical skills courses to assign briefs and oral arguments as a means for law students to immerse themselves in historical topics. Without distracting from other approaches, I framed this innovation as teaching legal history not to budding historians but to budding lawyers.