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1. Week Two Assignment - The Legal Profession

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   This assignment from The Legal Profession course at the Indiana University School of Law addresses certain legal skills that Professor Henderson emphasizes as part of effective lawyering. The assignment requires students to complete identification and application of the named skills while working in small groups, and then requires students to prepare for class discussion centered around the identified legal skills.

2. Overview - Advanced Contracts

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   Professor Gillian Hadfield of the University of Southern California School of Law created an advanced contracts course based upon problem-based teaching methods to help students become more practice-ready lawyers once they graduate. The course overview identifies the materials Professor Hadfield has made available for use by other professors, as well as provides her contact information.

3. Overview - First Year Contracts

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   The First Year Contracts course at the University of Southern California updates the traditional notion of a contracts course by teaching students to actually do contracts, as opposed to simply applying rules drawn from appellate cases and hypothetical scenarios. This course overview contains a description of the course portfolio and the other materials for this course.

4. Syllabus - Evidence Law

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   The syllabus for Professor Steven Friedland's Evidence Law course discusses the goals, learning objectives, and structure of the course. The syllabus also contains the course policies, grading structure, and assignments. Lastly, the syllabus contains an outline of the course, organized by date, and the topic to be addressed at each class session.

5. Sample Fundamental Skills Exercises - Property

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   This assignment from Professor Burgess’s Property course at the Charlotte School of Law helps students build their understanding of both the doctrine and written analytical skills, as well as how to study and learn the law.  These Fundamental Skills assignments are designed to work students through a cumulative progression from straight application of the law, issue spotting, and finally to analysis.

6. Voices from the Field: Dennis Kaw, "Parroting Doctrine"

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   In his Voices from the Field interview, Dennis Kaw, General Counsel for Appliance Factory Outlet and its affiliates (AFO), discusses the need for law students to engage in more experiential learning throughout law school. In this video, Kaw discusses the insufficiency of the "parrot doctrine," the practice of law students regurgitating doctrine learned in law school ... MORE

7. Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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   The Indiana University Maurer School of Law has developed a strategic plan that includes its commitment to a continuously updated curriculum that meets the changing needs of the profession and professionalism, including the areas of writing, communications, and clinical opportunities.

8. William Henderson: Formative Feedback Is Worth the Cost

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   William Henderson is a professor of law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Here, he discusses the challenge and importance of using formative feedback when evaluating law students.

9. Michael Hunter Schwartz: Techniques I Use for Teaching

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   Michael Hunter Schwartz is a law professor at Washburn University School of Law. Here, Professor Schwartz describes the many teaching methods he uses within one class period to access the different learning styles of the students.

10. Student Work: Contracts Poem - Contracts I and II

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    This student work example summarizes the first year contracts course at Washburn University School of Law taught by Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz. Through humor and rhyme, the student demonstrates an understanding of fundamental doctrinal concepts learned in the course.