How can law schools do a better, more sophisticated job of teaching their students?
I’m writing an article on innovation in law school teaching methods for a legal-related publication and looking for sources. Teaching, evaluating and grading methods have remained more or less static across North American law schools for decades now, and there has been very little impetus for fresh approaches. But just as the legal profession is being forced to abandon old methodologies and adopt new practices in the face of technological, marketplace and generational change, so law schools are facing the same sorts of pressures and having to respond accordingly. I’d like to speak to law school deans and professors who are leading the march towards a re-examination of how law schools go about teaching their students. Specific questions: -How should a professor teach students when classrooms are filled with wireless laptops and the Internet is a universally accessed resource? -How should schools grade students when 100% final exams are under more and more scrutiny of their fairness and
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