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
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LEARN (Legal Education Analysis & Reform Network), Steering Committee Memo, March 5, 2009.
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Professor Mary Lynch - Editor
I’m publishing a book in the very near future titled “Fuel the Spark: 5 Guiding Values for Success in Law School and Beyond.” The book ties in very nicely to your initiative and I’m hoping to help law schools bring some more values-based discussions to campus right away – through the book, and through keynotes/seminars.
I’d love you to list the book and my site as a resource.
Thank you.
Kevin E. Houchin, Esq.
This looks like a terrific book. I look forward to reading it! All the best!