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Best Practices For Legal Education

Source of information on current reforms in legal education arising from the publication of Roy Stuckey’s Best Practices for Legal Education and the Carnegie Foundation’s Educating Lawyers.
By Mary Lynch, Editor

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Last Entry: July 19, 2010 at 23:07:04

In-role learning environments

Posted on February 20, 2008
This posting is a belated answer to a question Mary Lynch posed in her comment on a posting here at http://tinyurl.com/2r7fgo. Mary was asking about examples of ?successful ?in role? learning environments/exercises which work in non-clinical, larger classroom settings?...

Whatever Happened to Formative Feedback?

Posted on February 19, 2008
Imagine taking a piano lesson with a teacher who asks questions, but gives little on-the-spot feedback. Imagine the teacher returning week after week, stating after each lesson, “I will give you feedback after our big, end of the session recital...

2008 Conference for Law School Computing

Posted on February 19, 2008
Theme: Transforming Legal Education “This year’s conference is all about change - transformational change. It is time to put the divisiveness of laptops in the classroom behind us. It is time to face our fears. Fear of USNews ranks, fear of the student debt implosion, fear of technology and change itself...

Learning from Medical School?Resident and Law Student Interaction

Posted on February 18, 2008
Rob Schwartz, my colleague and renowned health law professor at the University of Mexico has been getting medical school students and law students together for years. He has regularly organizes a Medical Legal Ethics day where students get together to discuss medical and legal problems...

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Down to Basics - Writing Student Learning Outcomes

Posted on February 15, 2008
As others have noted, identifying student learning outcomes is hard work. First, you have to identify student learning outcomes. Then you have to figure out how to measure them. Then you have to go back and revise … few of us get it “right” the first time...

Learning from Medical School?Formative Feedback, Assessment and Resources

Posted on February 15, 2008
Formative feedback is giving students information about their performance to help them improve. Summative assessment is an evaluation of the student?s performance. It is useful in determining whether the student as achieved the skill or level of knowledge...

Learning from Medical School?Pre-tests for Legal Skills?

Posted on February 11, 2008
As part of the collaborative project on joint training for medical residents and law schools about domestic violence, the group had decided to use standardized patients to ?pre-test? skills. The idea is that the pre-test would help us determine the effectiveness of the training...

Learning from Medical School?Outcome Based Assessment: An ?aha? moment

Posted on February 08, 2008
Ever since I got involved a few years ago with the Best Practices project, I started putting educational objectives on my syllabi. These are the objectives I had on my Fall 2007 Family Law syllabus which incorporated a joint Medical Legal training project on Domestic Violence using standardized clients...

Getting from here to there: how are we going to implement Best Practices?

Posted on February 08, 2008
As someone who has been involved in the Best Practices project and its predecessors more or less from the beginning (though my longevity is more impressive than my substantive contributions), I am extraordinarily pleased by the publication of the book and the buzz that is creating...

Learning From Medical School About Assessment

Posted on February 05, 2008
In summer, 2007 Dr. Cameron Crandall approached the Law School about collaborating on a joint training program for domestic violence. Since I teach Family Law, I was very interested in new approaches to addressing the issue of Domestic Violence. Professors and staff from the medical school and a legal aid attorney who specializes in domestic violence [...

The Chronicle of Higher Education Takes Note of Best Practices

Posted on January 28, 2008
Two recent articles by Katherine Mangan promote Best Practices and some of the law schools that are working to implement reform. Her January 11th story, ?All Rise. Welcome Law School,? describes Touro Law Center as creating change in legal education by ?emphasizing practical skills from Day 1...

The January 2008 United Kingdom Conference on Legal Education

Posted on January 21, 2008
Here are a few observations after participating in the second annual UK Conference on Legal Education on January 3rd and 4th of 2008: 1. In Sync. The legal education instructors in the UK share our issues and concerns regarding the future of legal education...

ABA Sets Groundwork for Change

Posted on January 18, 2008
Possible changes are afoot with the ABA, and anyone interested in legal education will want to take note. These changes are important because of the ABA’s influence on U.S. law schools.

Save the Date: Best Practices Conference at U of Washington

Posted on January 18, 2008
The University of Washington School of Law has agreed to host a Conference addressing efforts to implement the insights from Best Practices and Educating Lawyers: Legal Education at the Crossroads: Ideas to Accomplishments to be held September 5-7, 2008...

Washburn?s First Week Best Practices Curriculum

Posted on January 14, 2008
Integrated into one of each entering students’ regular courses, Washburn’s First Week Curriculum consists of one full week of instruction (twelve hours of classroom instruction plus another ten hours working in small, carefully-constructed, and closely-supervised small groups) aimed at several of the goals addressed in Best Practices...

Protected: Draft for Seattle Law Review

Posted on January 13, 2008
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

AALS Sessions

Posted on January 08, 2008
John Mayer on his CALIopolis Blog has posted the audio of the AALS Session: Rethinking Legal Education For The 21st Century. The speakers included… Moderator: Edward L. Rubin, Vanderbilt University Law School Speakers: Vicki C. Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center Robert Mac Crate, Esq...

?The Falling Down Professions?

Posted on January 07, 2008
Many of you probably saw and read the cover of the Sunday Styles section of January 6th’s New York Times entitled: ”The Falling Down Professions.” The article outlines the decrease in “happiness” of lawyers and doctors...

A Call for a Response: ?Why are Law Professors So Unhappy??

Posted on January 07, 2008
Yet another connection that might be made to another blog, to TaxProfBlog in fact : http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/12/why-are-law-pro.html#comments “Why Are Law Professors So Unhappy?” asks renowned tax law professor and scholar of pedagogy Paul Caron...

Feminist Law Profs Blog

Posted on January 06, 2008
Some thoughtful reflection from a colleague on the Feminist Law Professors blog: http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/?p=2646

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