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Pedagogy
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The Faculty Lounge
Collaborative Exams?
In keeping with my recent posts about final exams, I'm curious about whether anyone has tried anything like a collaborative exam. I've been interested in the idea for a few…
TortsProf Blog
Bernstein on Torts Pedagogy
Anita Bernstein (Brooklyn) has posted to SSRN Teaching Torts: Rivalry as Pedagogy. The abstract provides:This contribution to a Tort Law Academic Workshop considers the ‘twin themes’ pervading torts pedagogy in…
Legal Profession Blog
My “Dean Speech” on the Future of the Legal Academy
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw The always insightful and interesting Howard Wasserman (FIU, left) provoked a discussion over at PrawfsBlawg on "student centered" teaching that, in the comment thread, turned into…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
LWI Conference Preview – Monday
The Legal Writing Institute Conference is the most important event for legal writing professors. The number of sessions can be overwhelming (particularly for first time attendees) and you will usually find yourself wanting…
The Faculty Lounge
Filling the Gap
We come to the end of another semester. And in a few days our students will take our final exams.How do you handle student questions during this "gap" period between…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Scholarship alert: “What’s on your playlist? The power of podcasts as a pedagogical tool”
This article is by Professor Kathleen Elliott Vinson and is available at 2009 U. Ill. J.L. Tech. & Pol'y 405-428. From the abstract:It is six in the morning and a law…
The Faculty Lounge
A Conveys Blackacre To B And Her Heirs
I’m looking forward to teaching Property Law this semester, a course I’ve been wanting to teach for a while now. Prepping a new course for the first time is never…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
How to get students to read
The problem with law students may not be that they don't read (it's pretty hard to avoid it in law school although many still try), but reading comprehension. Thus, this article from Inside…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
“I know good writing when I see it yet I can’t explain to students how to do it”
That's the premise of this essay entitled "Feeling Fake in the Classroom" from the Chronicle of Higher Ed in which an undergraduate English instructor admits that the ability to recognize "bad" student writing from…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Thinking Pegagogy: Saturday Evening Review
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
As many of us prepare for the start of a new semester, we are thinking about pedagogy in our courses and our institutions. One article on the "must read" list…