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Law School 2.0: Legal Education For A Digital Age, David I.C. Thomson Jan 2009

Law School 2.0: Legal Education For A Digital Age, David I.C. Thomson

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Legal education is at a crossroads. As today's media-saturated students enter law school, they find themselves thrust into old style lecture-orientated, casebook modes of instruction, much of which is over 100 years old. Over those years legal education has resisted many studies recommending change, most recently from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Clinical Legal Education Association. . .


Using A Wiki To Increase Student Engagement In Administrative Law, David I.C. Thomson Jan 2008

Using A Wiki To Increase Student Engagement In Administrative Law, David I.C. Thomson

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Administrative law is one of the courses students love to hate. This is particularly true in schools where Admin is a required course, since many students in the class would not take it otherwise, and gripe about being forced to. The problem with Admin law – for both the teacher and the student – is that it is such a vast topic that teaching it in a manner students can comprehend is diffi cult. When I was asked to teach Admin law last year, I looked at this as a challenge, rather than a burden. Because I am fairly comfortable …