A new article was posted on SSRN last month by Jennifer Bard from Texas Tech University School of Law entitled Addressing the Challenge of Teaching Skills in Today’s Law Schools: How Medical Schools Used to Have the Same Problems We Do and What We Can Learn from Their Efforts to Solve Them. Here is a piece of the abstract: [...]
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By: Stacy Caplow, Professor of Law and Director of Brooklyn Law School’s Clinical Education Program Reforming legal education has been a staple of discussion by the bench, bar and the academy forever. Ever since the Carnegie Report kicked off the most recent round of conversations, conferences on the subject have abounded, attempts to redesign the [...]
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Late last week, the New York State Bar Association presented a proposed resolution to the ABA House of Delegates at their Annual Meeting in Toronto and the need for law schools to create more practice ready lawyers. Portions of the proposal were taken from the “Report on the Task Force on the Future of the [...]
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Clinical Legal Education Association board members Mae Quinn and Perry Moriearty are seeking volunteers to participate on an ad hoc committee to explore the proposed elimination of Standard 503 (which virtually requires law schools to use the LSAT as the single test for admissions purposes). The ABA Standards Review Committee recently voted to eliminate ABA Standard [...]
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This post comes courtesy of the blog Dorf on Law in an entry entitled “Guest Post on Teaching Legal Writing by Professor Lisa McElroy“. The post builds on an article written for the New York Times on improving law schools. Here’s a small taste: And all of these statistics are not speculation. Every year, the Legal Writing [...]
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An interesting symposium coming up in the fall: Symposium: The Way to Carnegie: Practice, Practice, Practice– a conversation about pedagogy, social justice , and cost in experiential legal education to be held on October 28, 2011 at Boston College Law School, Newton, MA
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Condolences to the folks at NYLS . . .although this is more about the soon-to-depart Dean than the law school . . . nothing really new here except maybe the focus on Richard Matasar’s business interests and the incongruity of his actual policies with his frequent and fervent critiques of legal education . . . [...]
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My colleague David Achtenberg has used a unique policy for regulating student use of laptop computers in his large enrollment Civil Procedure class. He designates the back three or four rows in the classroom as an “Internet Usage Zone” where students can, within limits of reason and legality, use their laptops in any way they wish. The [...]
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As we count down toward this summer’s bar, trying to soothe our nervous-to-frantic recent grads, might want to suggest that they read “A Japanese Legal Exam That Sets the Bar High” (I realize that not everyone can access NY Times articles online for free, but won’t reproduce the whole article to avoid using up too [...]
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Chief Justice Roberts’ scathing dismissal of the value of legal scholarship evoked a far greater outpouring of comments, mostly fervently agreeing with the Chief Justice, than I’ve ever seen in prior ABA Journal articles about law schools. Many commentators directly connect the irrelevance of most law review articles with the poor job they say law [...]
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The ABA Standards Review Committee will be meeting in Minneapolis on July 9-10 and some new standards, along with comments from Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA), have been posted to the Standards Committee website. One change is to the ABA Bar Passage Requirements, on which CLEA just released a letter in opposition. Their first concern is over the proposed [...]
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Albany Law School Center for Excellence in Law Teaching (CELT) will be holding its Inaugural Conference in March of 2012. “Setting and Assessing Learning Objectives from Day One.” SAVE THE DATE: March 30, 2012 (with registration and dinner the night before!) Intended Audience: Individuals interested in improving legal education Individuals interested in breaking down the “silos” [...]
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I was forwarded a message today from Melissa Breger, Clinical Law Professor at Albany Law, about a resource available to professors for finding teaching materials. Stetson Law School’s website houses a database called The Teaching Materials Network which we have linked through the Center for Excellence in Law Teaching site. The site contains the following description: [...]
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This tip comes to us from Professor Jim Kelly at Notre Dame who suggested the book Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do The Right Thing by Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe. From the editor’s description: “Practical wisdom” is the essential human quality that combines the fruits of our individual experiences with our empathy and intellect-an [...]
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