AALS Committee on Curriculum Program
Marina Salon G, South Tower/Level 3, San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina
Workshop on Redesigning Legal Education
This three hour series of demonstrations, panels and discussions is a follow-up to the 2007 plenary session on "Rethinking Legal Education for the 21st Century." Getting down to specifics this year, we will address some of the most promising and most troublesome possibilities in legal education: the integration of academic and skills training, the use of technology in the classroom and beyond, the assessment of student learning, the lessons that pedagogic theory offers about standard, often unexamined legal teaching methods, and the appropriate level of formality or informality between the classroom teacher and the students. At the core of these various issues, which will be presented through suitably varied formats, is a central question: What should law professors do to be effective teachers? Should they incorporate simulations into lecture classes, ask students to answer classroom questions en masse over the Internet, employ evaluation devices during the course of the semester, alter their approach in light of contemporary psychological theories, sing a song at the beginning of class? This program will offer a (necessarily brief) overview of path-breaking developments on these topics, and provide resources for further exploration.
-Click here to view Paul Caron's Handout-
-Click here to view John Mayer's Handout-
-Click here to view John Mayer’s Presentation-
-Click here to view Ellen Podgor's Handout-
-Click here to view Panel Description-