Foundations for Teaching: A Data-Driven Model to Help Legal Educators Build Learning Outcomes into Their Instruction

May 24, 2021

Best Practices for Legal Education (By Davida Finger) — The author shares a post by Zack Demola and Logan Cornett (Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System) analyzing the competencies, skills, and characteristics law graduates need to be prepared for their careers.

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Law Teaching Strategies for a New Era: Beyond the Physical Classroom

May 24, 2021

Best Practices for Legal Education (By Davida Finger) — The author shares information about an upcoming conference based on the book Law Teaching Strategies for a New Era: Beyond the Physical Classroom. The conference will explore the future of online legal education and will offer tips, strategies, and tools for professors to enhance their classes.

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Fostering Wholehearted Lawyers through Clinical Legal Education

May 3, 2021

Best Practices for Legal Education (By Susan L. Brooks) — Professor Brooks (Drexel Law) shares how clinical law professors can encourage ‘wholeheartedness’ through their teaching and discusses her session on the topic at the 2021 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education.

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Institute for Law Teaching and Learning – Reflecting Back and Moving Forward: Effective Instruction in Online, Hybrid, and In-Person Learning Environments

April 26, 2021

Best Practices for Legal Education (By Davida Finger) — The author shares registration information for the virtual 2021 Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Summer Conference taking place June 10-11.

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Stories Of Leadership, Good And Bad: Another Modest Proposal For Teaching Leadership In Law Schools

March 22, 2021

TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Journal of the Legal Profession article by professor Doris DelTosto Brogan (Villanova Law) that urges law schools to educate students on the challenges they will encounter as leaders. 

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Teaching Law In The Time Of The COVID-19 Vaccine

February 13, 2021

TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares an article by professor Tim Duane (University of San Diego Law) on the health risks that faculty may face when returning to in-person classrooms. He details steps that schools should take to prepare for re-opening.

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Ideas for Teaching Mediation and Negotiation

January 25, 2021

Indisputably (By John Lande) — Professor Lande (University of Missouri Law) provides advice and resources for law professors planning to teach mediation and negotiation courses.

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My journey this semester from “hating” Zoom to “OK, I can make this work . . . .”

December 29, 2020

Legal Skills Prof Blog (By James B. Levy) — Professor Levy (Nova Southeastern Law) discusses his experience adapting to online teaching.

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Teaching Law is a Social Profession

November 30, 2020

Law School Academic Support Blog (By Bill McDonald) — Professor McDonald (University at Buffalo Law) describes the loss of interaction and collaboration between faculty on-campus due to the pandemic.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Zoom – my embrace of online teaching (with pics!) – Part 1.

November 30, 2020

Legal Skills Prof Blog (By James B. Levy) — In this five-part series, Professor Levy (Nova Southeastern Law) shares how he adapted his office to teach online in an engaging manner. In the first part post, he shares his computer and camera set-up. Part 2 | Part 3| Part 4| Part 5

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