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Law Schools And Learning Outcomes: Developing A Coherent, Cohesive, And Comprehensive Law School Curriculum, Anthony Niedwiecki
Law Schools And Learning Outcomes: Developing A Coherent, Cohesive, And Comprehensive Law School Curriculum, Anthony Niedwiecki
Cleveland State Law Review
This Article details a process that law schools can use to comply with the ABA Standards requiring schools to develop their learning outcomes for the entire institution, academic programs, and courses. At the same time, this process can be used as a roadmap for curricular review and planning. As an example, this Article uses the steps that The John Marshall Law School took to review and change its professional skills curriculum. Part I outlines the accreditation requirements for developing and publishing learning outcomes. Part II provides an overview of the process of curricular planning and development, with a focus on …
Encouraging This Particular Form Of (Very Fun) Madness – Roles For Deans And Faculty Members, Martin J. Katz, Phoenix X. F. Cai
Encouraging This Particular Form Of (Very Fun) Madness – Roles For Deans And Faculty Members, Martin J. Katz, Phoenix X. F. Cai
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
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.
Book Review. Rethinking The Law School: Education, Research, Outreach And Governance By Carel Stolker, Ashley A. Ahlbrand
Book Review. Rethinking The Law School: Education, Research, Outreach And Governance By Carel Stolker, Ashley A. Ahlbrand
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Preparing Law Students For Information Governance, Susan David Demaine
Preparing Law Students For Information Governance, Susan David Demaine
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Information governance is a holistic business approach to managing and using information that recognizes information as an asset as well as a potential source of risk. Law librarians and legal information professionals are well situated to take leadership roles in information governance efforts, including instructing law students in information governance principles and practices. This article traces the development of information governance and its importance to the legal profession, offers a primer on information governance principles and implementation, and discusses how academic law librarians and other legal educators can teach information governance to law students using problem-based learning or similar pedagogical …
Clinical Legal Education's Contribution To Building Constitutionalism And Democracy In South Africa: Past, Present, And Future, Peggy Maisel, Shaheda Mahomed, Meetali Jain
Clinical Legal Education's Contribution To Building Constitutionalism And Democracy In South Africa: Past, Present, And Future, Peggy Maisel, Shaheda Mahomed, Meetali Jain
Faculty Scholarship
Clinical Legal Education (“CLE”) courses were first introduced in South Africa nearly fifty years ago. Since then, their role has changed from addressing legal problems perpetrated by an oppressive system, to strengthening South Africa’s transition to democracy. The end of apartheid has been accompanied by a transition of focus from private law to public law. South Africa currently has seventeen public universities, each of which has a law faculty and a legal clinic. Many clinical programs’ missions are primarily dedicated to community service and providing access to justice.
Although CLE programs have undertaken some human rights and law reform work, …