AALS Hot Topic Program

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Session Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: New York Hilton Midtown

Room: Mercury Ballroom

Floor: Third Floor

This hot topics session will broaden this year’s debate on whether trigger warnings, designed to protect students from disturbing content, are warranted in the law school classroom. For example, identifying best practices in teaching rape law in required criminal law courses is part of a broader discussion involving many other courses throughout the law school curriculum that strike a personally difficult chord with students. This panel will distinguish best practices in teaching sensitive topics in different pedagogical contexts -- from a large mixed audience in a required first year course to upper division required and elective courses to smaller experiential client-based courses.