The Section's pedagogy for new law teachers program will present the diversity within Animal Law courses as a vehicle for exploring a variety of teaching methodologies. Those of us who teach Animal Law take many different approaches, including jurisprudential, experiential, specialty area-focused, surveys, and overviews. Our teaching methodologies range from traditional lecture and discussion, to live-client clinical work, small group policy work, seminar paper writing groups, and simulation-based mock hearings, to name a few. In addition, many of us integrate Animal Law issues into other substantive core courses that we teach.
This program will focus on ways that new teachers of courses ranging from Torts, Property, and Criminal Law to Trusts & Estates and Family Law can use Animal Law issues to introduce into the classroom current issues that are likely to grab students' attention. Panelists will also address the teaching of analytical skills and legal writing (both scholarly writing and practice-based writing) through Animal Law examples.