Best Practices for Legal Education

Best Practices Book Reviews

Recent Reports

• The Law Teacher, Spring ‘09: Short articles and other materials focusing on law school teaching, learning, & curriculum.
• LEARN (Legal Education Analysis & Reform Network), Steering Committee Memo, March 5, 2009.
• LEARN Planned Projects 09-10 (.pdf)
• ABA Report on Outcome Measures

 Publications

• Best Practices for Legal Education by Roy Stuckey
• Educating Lawyers (Summary of the Carnegie Report)
• What Helps Law Professors Develop as Teachers? by Sophie Sparrow (with Gerry Hess)
• Transforming Legal Education by Paul Maharq
• The Complete Lawyer
• Teaching & Learning Law – Resources for Legal Education by Barbara Glesner Fines
• Clinical Law Review
• E-Guide to Public Service at America’s Law Schools
• The Law Teacher (newsletter)
• “What’s Wrong with Langdell’s Method, and What to Do About it” by Edward Rubin (.pdf)
• Teaching Law Students to Be Self-Regulated Learners by Michael Schwartz
• Legal Education in the Age of Cognitive Science & Advanced Technology by Deborah Merritt
• What the Best College Teachers Do  by Ken Bain
• Humanizing Legal Education: An Introduction to a Symposium Whose time Came – Michael Schwartz
• Mending Legal Education

Organizations & Initiatives

• Clinical Legal Education Association
• The Association of American Law Schools
• Society of American Law Teachers (SALT)
• Institute for Law School Teaching
• Global Alliance for Justice Education
• Pilot Project on Effective Lawyer-Client Communication
• Humanizing Legal Education Initiative
• UK Centre for Legal Education

Media Reports

• “More Moral and Practical Law Schools” (Inside Higher Ed 01/05/07)
• The Complete Lawyer, Vol. 3, Iss. 5, September 2007
• “A Fresh Look at Law Schools“ (The National Law Journal 10/29/07)
• “Training Law Students for Real-Life Careers” (NY Times 10/31/07)
• “Leading Legal Educators Call for a Shakeup in How the Law is Taught”  (The Chronicle of Higher Education 12/07)
• “All Rise. Welcome to Law School.”  (The Chronicle of Higher Education 12/07)

Handouts/ PPT Slides/Conference Papers

• Crossroads Conference Materials (.pdf) – 9/08
• Crossroads Conference Supplementary Materials (.pdf) – 9/08
• Spring 2007 CDETG Talk on “Podcasting at Albany Law”(.pdf)
• Fall 2007 CDETG Talk on “Clickers in the Law School Classroom”(.pdf)
• 2008 AALS Talk on “CALI and Carnegie” (ppt)
• 2008 AALS Meeting for Deans on “Educating Lawyers” (ppt)
• 2008 Learning in Law Conference Keynote (”Curriculum Design Challenges for 21st Century Legal Education“) -pdf
• Future of Legal Education Conference – Paul Maharq’s presentation (ppt)
• 2007 AALS Workshop for New Law Teachers, Select Bibliography and other materials by Alison Anderson
• Papers from the Future of Legal Education Conference -2/08
• Transforming Legal Education – (CALI Conference Keynote) – Paul Maharq’s ppt

Audio/Video

• 2008 AALS Session on “Rethinking Legal Education” (Podcast)
• 2008 AALS Talk on “CALI and Carnegie” (podcast)
• 2008 AALS Talk on CALI and Carnegie (screencast)

Other

• Bibliography of Resources for Curricular Planning, from UNM School of Law

• LEARN (Legal Education Analysis & Reform Network), Steering Committee Memo, March 5, 2009.