All Articles tagged teaching

• Teaching Law
  May 16, 2019 EDT
  Cultivating Grit in Law Students: Grit, Deliberate Practice, and the First-Year Law School Curriculum
  Denitsa R. Mavrova Heinrich

  Grit, defined as “passion and perseverance for the long-term goal,” has proven to reliably predict success in a variety of domains.

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• Teaching Law
  January 30, 2019 EDT
  A Writing Revolution: Using Legal Writing’s “Hobble” to Solve Legal Education’s Problem
  Kristen Konrad Tiscione

  Law schools have failed to commit to teaching writing.

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• Teaching Law
  January 28, 2019 EDT
  A Proposal to the ABA: Integrating Legal Writing and Experiential Learning into a Required Six-Semester Curriculum that Trains Students in Core Competencies, ‘Soft’ Skills, and Real-World Judgement
  Adam LamparelloCharles E. MacLean

  Experiential learning is not the answer to problems facing legal education. The better approach is to create a required curriculum where students draft common litigation documents and engage in simulations.

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• Teaching Law
  January 28, 2019 EDT
  Answering the Call: Flipping the Classroom to Prepare Practice-Ready Attorneys
  Alex Berrio Matamoros

  In the rough and changing landscape of the legal job market, legal employers have called on law schools to prepare “practice ready” attorneys.

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• Teaching Law
  July 31, 2018 EDT
  Teaching Pierson v. Post
  Luke Meier

  A proposal to accomplish many of the pedagogical objectives as a law professor for the first week of class.

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• Teaching Law
  July 31, 2018 EDT
  Persuading with Precedent: Understanding and Improving Analogies in Legal Argument
  Jacob M. Carpenter

  A study conducted by scholars in other disciplines that focus on what people perceive when provided with an analogy.

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• Teaching Law
  July 31, 2018 EDT
  Scholar or Practitioner? Rethinking Qualifications for Entry-Level Tenure-Track Professors at Fourth-Tier Law Schools
  Philip L. Merkel

  How fourth-tier law schools can rethink their criteria they use when hiring tenure-track professors.

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• Teaching Law
  July 31, 2018 EDT
  Bridging the Reading Gap in the Law School Classroom
  Patricia Grande Montana

  How law professors can close the gap in reading skills of entering law students.

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• Teaching Law
  July 31, 2018 EDT
  Smarter Law Learning: Using Cognitive Science to Maximize Law Learning
  Jennifer M. Cooper

  Legal education has been slow to adapt to the modern students' learning habits.

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• Teaching Law
  July 31, 2018 EDT
  The Course Source: The Casebook Evolved
  Stephen M. Johnson

  An outline for the transformation of the casebook into the course source necessary for the broader adoption of a range of teaching methods by faculty.

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• Teaching Law
  July 31, 2018 EDT
  Process Over Product: A Pedagogical Focus on Email as a Means of Refining Legal Analysis
  Katrina June Lee

  A suggestion that email writing should join free writing and oral presentation as valuable tools for helping students develop analytical skills.

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• Teaching Law
  July 30, 2018 EDT
  My Grandmother was Mrs. Palsgraf: Ways to Rethink Legal Education to Help Students Become Lawyers, Rather than just Thinking Like Them
  Ian Gallacher

  How laws schools can do a better job of helping law students become practicing lawyers.

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• Teaching Law
  July 30, 2018 EDT
  Flipped Out, Plugged In, and Wired Up: Fostering Success for Students with ADHD in the New Digital Law School
  Dyane L. O'Leary

  How online educational experiences and students with ADHD create many challenges with the increased online learning spectrum.

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