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1. Assessing Professional Development Through the Use of Law Student Narrative

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   At our 3rd Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference, Accelerating Competency: Assessment in Legal Education, Melissa Swain and JoNel Newman from the University of Miami School of Law presented their qualitative study of Health Rights Clinic student narratives. The Clinic captures self-reflective writings from students at the mid-point of each semester.

2. Randy Wagner: Assessing Learning Outcomes Piece by Piece

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   At our 4th Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference, Building on the Foundations for Practice, Randy Wagner of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law presented on increased expectations regarding assessment.

   Wagner spoke about DU's plan for ongoing, comprehensive assessment projects, which target different portions of the JD program. The plan involv... MORE

3. Lessons from Teaching Students to Negotiate Like a Lawyer

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   This article reports John Lande's observations from teaching his Negotiation course and offers suggestions for future efforts to improve legal education, particularly through negotiation and other dispute resolution courses. It is a follow-up to his other article, Teaching Students... MORE

4. Video: We're Trained Differently, but Both Have Roots in Advocacy (Medical Professor Perspectives)

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   This video highlights the multi-disciplinary aspect of the Health Rights Clinic Medical Legal Partnership at the University of Miami. Medical Professors in charge of the clinical portion of the program discuss the benefits of bringing legal, medical, and social perspectives together in the same setting. Further, the professors detail the unique lecture series where lawyers... MORE

5. Tomorrow's Lawyers

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   This book was one of the "Recommended Readings" from the 2nd Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference, entitled Connecting the Academy and the Profession. Tomorrow's Lawyers is Richard Susskind's guide to the future of the practice of law. It is written for new and aspiring lawyers, and for everyone who wants to modernize our legal and justice systems. It naviga... MORE

6. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School

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   New evidence from many branches of science has significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture on what people see and absorb. How People Learn examines these findings and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children lear... MORE

7. Monica Hof Wallace: Family Law, Part 1

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   Monica Hof Wallace is a professor of law at Loyola New Orleans College of Law. This video provides an overview of her upper level Family Law course, entitled Law of Persons, in which Wallace incorporates experiential learning to teach students Louisiana’s civil family law.

8. Voices from the Field: Ann Roan

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   Ann Roan, State Training Director for the Colorado Public Defender’s Office, advocates for more practical skills education within law school classrooms in order to ease the transition into the high stakes environment of the courtroom. In order to accomplish this task, Roan encourages law schools and professors alike to adopt several strategies, including: placing more emphasis on teaching practice... MORE

9. Voices from the Field: Mark Nadeau, "Moving Beyond Thinking Like a Lawyer"

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   Mark Nadeau, a teacher of oral advocacy and trial tactics and a leading commentator on international dispute resolution, voices his opinion on legal education today in his Voices from the Field interview. In this video, Nadeau discusses a gap that exists wherein law schools teach students to "think" like a lawyer, yet neglect to teach students to perfo... MORE

10. Gillian Hadfield: Advanced Contracts Class: Two-Page Contract

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    This video is from an experiential, advanced contracts class taught by Gillian Hadfield, a law professor at USC Gould School of Law.