Join us for an
interactive program designed to open our minds to the challenges and
opportunities presented to law schools by the changing nature of student
learning styles and the legal profession in the digital age. How can we respond
to the changing nature of student learning? The premise of the Socratic method
is that during a dialogue between professor and student A, all students are
closely following along, imagining their response, and drawing understanding
from their own reading and their rapt engagement with the dialogue. However
valid this premise may have been in the days of Christopher Columbus Langdell,
it seems dubious for the digital age. our challenge is to find ways to meet
students where they are. Digital technology offers new possibilities for
learning, but also for distraction. How can we prepare our students for work in
light of the changing nature of law practice? The work of Richard Susskind and
others has illuminated the ways in which artificial intelligence and the
worldwide digital communications network have altered the needs and
possibilities of law practice. We will consider those changes and how as
professors we can better prepare our students for that changing world.
Papers from this
program will be published in Journal of Legal Education.
Business
meeting held on Friday, January 5 at 7:30am.