Topic
Experiential Learning
50 published works
Law Deans on Legal Education Blog
Clinical Education
Medical schools pride themselves on being professional schools, and not graduate schools. They understand that they cannot train new doctors, without giving them exposure to actual medical practice. Law schools…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
CFP: Experiential Learning Across the Curriculum
By Jeff Baker
Via Prof. Kelly Terry of UALR and The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning: Experiential Learning Across The Curriculum Call for Presentation Proposals The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning invites…
Health Law Prof Blog
Guest Blogger Professor Rebecca Dresser: When the Professional Becomes Personal
Most of the time, we teach and write about health issues from a distance. We don’t deal with matters like access to health care and enrolling in clinical trials ourselves.…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict, Creativity and Integration in Legal Education
By Jeff Baker
Prof. David Barnhizer recently posted the ominous “‘Drumbeats of Doom’ and the Downsizing of Law Faculties” at LawNext. He projects the potential for a “civil war” among classes of law…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Spring Conferences
There are some incredible conferences on the horizon! Below is some information about two from the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning. Don’t forget to save the date for two…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
Hybrid Courses and Focused Field Placements
By Jeff Baker
In recent years, the community of clinical legal educators have been imagining courses beyond the classic categories of clinics and externships. Live-client clinics and field placements are the pillars of…
Health Law Prof Blog
Guest Blogger Associate Professor Jonathan Todres: Incorporating Experiential Learning in Health Law Courses
As law schools continue to contemplate curricular reforms, health law courses offer a particularly rich area for exploration. Employers increasingly want new graduates to be “practice ready.” Setting aside the…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
Second National Symposium on Experiential Education in Law
By Jeff Baker
Via Patricia Voorhies:The Second National Symposium on Experiential Education in Law, organized by the Alliance for Experiential Learning in Law, will be June 13 - 15, 2014, at Elon University…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
Service-Learning in the Law School Curriculum
By dlorahhughes
In my first post about service-learning, I asked the question: who is serving whom? In this post, I want to reflect on why I think service-learning is important in the…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
Bruce Green in the New York Law Journal: Experiential Learning: Practice Makes Perfect
By Jeff Baker
Prof. Bruce Green published "Experiential Learning: Practice Makes Perfect" in the New York Law Journal, April 21, 2014, including descriptions of programs at Fordham, Cardozo, NYLS and NYU.An excerpt: Extensive thought…