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Encouraging This Particular Form Of (Very Fun) Madness – Roles For Deans And Faculty Members, Martin J. Katz, Phoenix X. F. Cai Jan 2016

Encouraging This Particular Form Of (Very Fun) Madness – Roles For Deans And Faculty Members, Martin J. Katz, Phoenix X. F. Cai

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Our broader goal is to encourage experiential learning in the transactions curriculum. I know that all of you are here and do not need convincing. So my goal for this session is to try and provide some persuasive tools to help you convince people at your schools about both the value and the possibility of this type of teaching and learning.


Understanding The Costs Of Experiential Legal Education, Martin J. Katz Jan 2015

Understanding The Costs Of Experiential Legal Education, Martin J. Katz

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Law schools across the country are under pressure to do two seemingly contradictory things. First, we must do a better job of preparing our graduates for practice. Most commentators, including me, believe that this requires law schools to increase the quantity and quality of experiential education we provide. At the same time, law schools are under pressure to control costs. If we do not do so, we risk pricing a large and growing segment of the population out of our market. Can law schools meet both of these mandates simultaneously? The received wisdom seems to be that experiential education is …