Washington and Lee Embarks on a New Third Year Curriculum: Embraces the Carnegie Report and Best Practices

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Peter Joy

            Washington and Lee University School of Law is dramatically changing its curriculum by creating a new third year curriculum devoted to professional development through simulated and real-client practice experiential learning.  Influenced by the Carnegie Report, Educating Lawyers, and Best Practices for Legal Education, the new third year curriculum integrates legal theory, doctrine and the [...]

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Externships — A Bridge to Practice

Posted on February 20, 2008 by nancymaurer

I just returned from an excellent conference:  Externships 4 – A Bridge to Practice.  This was the fourth in a series of national conferences by and for law school externship program faculty.  The theme of this conference was “challenging faculty and administrators to consider the role of externships in the curriculum in light of the [...]

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