Legal Education Begins Anew
Every year since I began teaching, I’ve been nagged by a sense that I was doing some wrong things in… Read More »Legal Education Begins Anew
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What’s Old is New Again, Legal Education Edition
“Law Students Leave Torts Behind (for a Bit) and Tackle Accounting” in the New York Times (@nytimes) is a jumbled… Read More »What’s Old is New Again, Legal Education Edition
Innovation and Experience in Legal Education
What’s the point of “experiential” legal education? Anecdotes and a bit of data are surfacing. Note:
- “Does Experiential Learning Improve JD Employment Outcomes?,” a new manuscript from Jason Yackee that looks at some of the impact of law school clinics. Mike Risch at Villanova has some interesting reactions.
- “Ahead of the Curve,” a new report from the team at IAALS, evaluates the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program at the University of New Hampshire.
- “Young lawyers take flight after incubator programs,” a short piece in the new ABA Journal, which uses results from CUNY’s incubator program to promote the virtues of incubator programs in general.
The same batch of messages that brought these to my attention also brought me a link to the upcoming ABA Techshow, which struck me as being enormously important to the future of lawyers but not much in the sights of the bulleted experiential legal education programs.Read More »Innovation and Experience in Legal Education
The Future of Copyright: Teaching
IP law seems to be moving so quickly these days that figuring out how to teach it and what to… Read More »The Future of Copyright: Teaching
Innovating Legal Education
A year ago, in late August 2013, I posted a brief bit about my hopes for the coming year from… Read More »Innovating Legal Education