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Pedagogy
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Legal Writing Prof Blog
flipped classrooms
Michelle Pistone at Villanova has been doing some very interesting work on flipped classrooms in legal education. Although the classroom active learning that she advocates for is nothing new to…
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Conference on Critical Perspectives on Trusts and Estates
Now that I'm back from Oklahoma City University's conference, "trusts and estates meets gender, race, and class," I wanted to talk a little bit about it. Carla Spivack organized it…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Controversy in Class
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog posted a new piece about law school pedagogy. It discusses effectively using controversial class discussions to foster critical thinking. From the post:Law schoolpedagogy is…
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Dept. of Pedagogical Hype: Teaching Collaboration
From many quarters one hears that law schools must alter their pedagogical model to teach students to work collaboratively because that is how law is practiced today. Proponents of this…
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Teaching Legal History
I want to build on Al’s previous post on legal history and bring the discussion into the classroom. Last semester I taught a legal history seminar that I designed myself…
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Is a Law Student Any Different Than a Horse? What If Buck Brannaman Were a Law Professor?
Posted by Jeff LipshawI've been reflecting this summer on the student evaluations from my evening first-year contracts class, and the creation of learning environments. Here's what the data tells…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Institute conference, post #2
One of the hallmarks of an Institute conference is that each plenary and large-group session demonstrates active learning techniques for the engaged classroom.In our first meeting on Monday morning, we…
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Catching My Eye
Catching my eye this week is a paper recently posted to SSRN by law prof Mark Osler (pictured), currently at St. Thomas (Minnesota) and formerly at Baylor (sic 'em Bears!).…
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Education and Anonymity
I'm taking a course online at the moment which is in the standard format of other online courses I've taken in the past - weekly assignments, discussion board for class…
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Can an Exam Question Be Too Easy?
For those of us who have to grade on a curve, a problematic scenario is that you grade your exams and the scores are flat. Of course, if all of…