Sessions Information

  • May 1, 2012
    10:45 am - 12:15 pm
    Session Type: AALS Programs
    Session Capacity: N/A
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    Lawyering skills are essential. In an increasingly complex world, lawyering is as much about skill--relating with clients, researching, fact finding, etc--as it is about knowledge.  We teach skills in the clinic classroom and while supervising students.  We therefore need to know the best ways of performing these skills and the most effective methods for teaching them to our students.  Recent research has produced many new insights into different lawyering skills and how to teach them. The teaching of lawyering skills has evolved significantly from when we first became clinical teachers.  The panel will discuss foundational and emerging methods of teaching lawyering skills and focus on one such skill-negotiation-and how new knowledge involving biases, heuristics, emotions, intuition, gender, race, culture, neuroscience, learning theory,  technology and the behavioral sciences translate into what we teach and how we now teach.

Session Speakers
University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law
Plenary Session Speaker

Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Plenary Session Speaker

Southwestern Law School
Moderator

Elon University School of Law
Plenary Session Speaker

University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Plenary Session Speaker

University of New Mexico School of Law
Plenary Session Speaker

Session Fees

Fees information is not available at this time.