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  • General Teaching and Teaching Techniques
    • Tiffany D. Atkins, #ForTheCulture: Generation Z and the Future of Legal Education, 26 MICH. J. RACE & L. 115 (2020-2021). Article here.
    • Timothy Casey, Reflections on Legal Education in the Aftermath of a Pandemic, 28 CLINICAL L. REV. 85 (2021-2022). Article here.
    • Lani Guinier and Susan Sturm, The Law School Matrix: Reforming Legal Education in a Culture of Competition and Conformity, 60 VAND. L. REV. 515 (2007). Article here.
    • Catherine W. Hantzis, Kingsfield and Kennedy: Reappraising the Male Models of Law School Teaching, 38 J. LEGAL EDUC. 155, 156, 158 (1988). Article here.
    • EMMA JONES, EMOTIONS IN THE LAW SCHOOL: TRANSFORMING LEGAL EDUCATION THROUGH THE PASSIONS (2019). Info here.
    • Minna J. Kotkin, Clinical Legal Education and the Replication of Hierarchy, 26 CLINICAL L. REV. 287 (2019-2020). Article here.
    • Gerald P. Lopez, Transform—Don’t Just Tinker With—Legal Education (Part II), 24 CLINICAL L. REV. 247 (2018). Article here.
    • Phil Lord, Black Lives Matter: On Challenging the Soul of Legal Education, 54 TEX. TECH L. REV. 89 (2021-2022). Article here.
    • Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Criminal Legal Education, 58 AM. CRIM. L. REV. 413 (2021). Article here.
    • Gary Shaw, A Heretical View of Teaching: A Contrarian Looks at Teaching, the Carnegie Report, and Best Practices, 28 TOURO L. REV. 1239 (2012). Article here.
    • Benjamin Spencer, The Law School Critique in Historical Perspective, 69 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1949 (2012). Article here.
    • William Sullivan, After Ten Years: The Carnegie Report and Contemporary Legal Education, 14 U ST. THOMAS L.J. 331 (2018). Article here.
    • Aspasia I. Tsaoussi, Using soft skills courses to inspire law teachers: a new methodology for a more humanistic legal education, THE LAW TEACHER, 54:1, 1-30, (2020). Article here.
    • Kathryne M. Young, What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education, 11 UC IRVINE L. REV. 811 (2020-2021). Article here.

     

  • Best Practices in Experiential Learning
    • Myra Berman, Portals to Practice: A Multidimensional Approach to Integrating Experiential Education into the Traditional law School Curriculum, 1 J. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING (2014-2015). Article here.
    • Susan L. Brooks et al., Moving Toward a Competency-Based Model for Fostering Law Students’ Relational Skills, 28 CLINICAL L. REV. 369 (2022). Article here.
    • Emily Traylor Vande Lune, Settling for Six: Should the American Bar Association Have Done More to Promote Experiential Learning in Law Schools?, 39 J. LEGAL PROF. 305 (2015). Article here.
    • Carrie Hempel, Writing on a Blank Slate: Creating a Blueprint for Experiential Learning at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, 1 UC IRVINE L. REV. 146 (2011). Article here.
    • Derrick Howard, Phantom Thread: Restoring Live-Client Interactions to the First-Year Educational Continuum in this Age of Information and Beyond, 81 U. PITT. L. REV. 597 (2020). Article here.
    • Allison Korn & Laila Hlass, Assessing the Experiential (R)Evolution, 65 VILL. L. REV. 713 (2020). Article here.
    • Robert L. Jones Jr., Integrating Experiential Learning into the Law School Curriculum, 7 ELON L. REV. 43 (2015). Article here.
    • Peter A. Joy, The Uneasy History of Experiential Education in U.S. Law Schools, 122 DICKINSON L. REV. 551 (2017-2018). Article here.
    • Nantiya Ruan, Student, Esquire?: The Practice of Law in the Collaborative Classroom, 20 CLINICAL L. REV. 429 (2014). Article here.
    • Margaret E. Reuter & Joanne Ingham, The Practice Value of Experiential Legal Education: an Examination of Enrollment Patterns, Couse Intensity, and Career Relevance, 22 CLINICAL L. REV. 181 (2015). Article here.
    • Steven M. Virgil, The Role of Experiential Learning on a Law Student’s Sense of Professional Identity, 51 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 325 (2016). Article here.
    • Jason Webb Yackee, Does Experiential Learning Improve JD Employment Outcomes?, 2015 WIS. L. REV. 601 (2015). Article here.
  • Best Practices in Inclusive Pedagogy
    • Rory Bahadur & Liyun Zhang, Socratic Teaching and Learning Styles: Exposing the Pervasiveness of Implicit Bias and White Privilege in Legal Pedagogy, 18 HASTINGS RACE & POVERTY L. J. 114 (2021). Article here.
    • Kirsten A. Dauphinais, Valuing and Nurturing Multiple Intelligences in Legal Education: A Paradigm Shift, 11 WASH. & LEE RACE & ETHNIC ANC. L.J. 1 (2005). Article here.
    • Shahrokh Falati, The Makings of a Culturally Savvy Lawyer: Novel Approaches for Teaching and Assessing Cross-Cultural Skills in Law School, 49 J. L. & EDUC. 627 (2020). Article
    • Sean Darling-Hammond & Kristen Holmquist, Creating Wise Classrooms to Empower Diverse Law Students: Lessons in Pedagogy from Transformative Law Professors, 33 CHICANO-LATINO L. REV. 1 (2015). Article here.
    • Jennifer Jolly-Ryan, Bridging the Law School Learning Gap Through Universal Design, 28 TOURO L. Rev. 1393 (2012). Article here.
    • Anabel Moriña, Approaches to Inclusive Pedagogy: A Systematic Literature Review, 140 Pedagogika 134 (2020). Article here.
    • Spencer Rand, Social Justice as a Professional Duty: Effectively Meeting Law Student Demand for Social Justice by Teaching Social Justice as a Professional Competency, 87 U. CIN. L. REV. 77 (2018). Article here.
    • SOCIETY OF AM. LAW TEACHERS AND GOLDEN GATE U. SCHOOL OF LAW, VULNERABLE POPULATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIVE LAW TEACHING: A CRITICAL READER (2011)
    • INTEGRATING DOCTRINE AND DIVERSITY: INCLUSION AND EQUITY IN THE LAW SCHOOL CLASSROOM (Nicole P. Kyszlewski, et als., eds., Carolina Acad. Press 2021).
    • Powerpoint on Inclusive Pedagogy
  • Best Practices for Assessments
    • Steven Friedland, Critical Inquiry into the Traditional Uses of Law School Evaluation, 23 PACE L. REV. 147, 178 (2002). Article here.
    • Cassandra L. Hill, The Elephant in the Law School Assessment Room: The Role of Student Responsibility and Motivating Our Students to Learn, 56 HOW. L.J. 447 (2013). Article here.
    • Abigail Loftus DeBlasis & Elizabeth Adamo Usman, Unrealized Potential: How Shifting the Focus to Student Learning Outcomes Could Reduce Law Student Distress, 95 U. DET. MERCY L. REV. 179 (2018). Article here.
    • Karen McDonald Henning & Julia Belian, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: Increasing Assessments and Individualized Feedback in Law School Classes, 95 U. DET. MERCY L. REV. 35 (2017). Article here.
    • Brent E. Newton, The Ninety-Five Theses: Systemic Reforms of American Legal Education and Licensure, 64 S.C. L. REV. 55 (2012). Article here.
    • Leslie M. Rose, Norm-Referenced Grading in the Age of Carnegie: Why Criteria-Referenced Grading is More Consistent with Current Trends in Legal Education and How Legal Writing Can Lead the Way, 17 LEGAL WRITING 123 (2011). Article here.
    • Margaret Ryznar, Upward! Higher: How a Law Faculty Stays Ahead of the Curve: Assessing Law Students, 51 IND. L. REV. 447 (2018). Article here.
    • Kelly S. Terry, Embedding Assessment Principles in Externships, 20 CLINICAL L. REV. 467 (2014). Article here.
    • Emily Zimmerman, What Do Law Students Want?: The Missing Puzzle Piece of the Assessment Puzzle, 42 RUTGERS L. J. 1 (2010). Article here.
  • Teaching and Technology
    • James B. Levy, Teaching the Digital Caveman: Rethinking the Use of Technology in Law School, 19 CHAP. L. REV. 241 (2016). Article here.
    • Sarah R. Boonin & Luz E. Herrera, From Pandemic to Pedagogy: Teaching the Technology of Lawyering in Law Clinics, 68 U. J. L. & POL’Y 109 (2022). Article here.
    • Kristen E. Murray, Take Note: Teaching Law Students to be Responsible Stewards of Technology, 70 CATH. U. L. REV. 201 (2021). Article here.
    • Dyane L. O’Leary, “Smart” Lawyering: Integrating Technology Competence into the Legal Practice Curriculum, 19 U.N.H. L. REV. 197 (2021). Article here.
    • Lauren A. Newell, Redefining Attention (and Revamping the Legal Profession?) for the Digital Generation, 15 NEV. L. J. 754 (2015). Article here.
    • Pearl Goldman, Legal Education and Technology III: An Annotated Bibliography, 111 LAW LIBR. J. 325 (2019). Article here.
  • Technology Training Videos