This new book on teaching law draws upon the wisdom of hundreds of legal educators to provide ideas, materials, and alternatives for teaching a variety of law school courses. The book offers guidance for new and experienced law teachers to plan and deliver effective courses. From Business Associations to Family Law, Federal Income Taxation to Torts, each chapter addresses one of the fifteen courses most students take during their legal education. 
Each chapter has five sections: (1) Approach, encompassing global issues about a course, such as goals, organizational scheme, general philosophy, syllabi, and coverage; (2) Materials, evaluating what kinds of materials enhance a course; (3) Class Exercises, evaluating what teaching and learning activities work well in a course and suggesting in- and out-of-class projects that promote learning; (4) Brief Gems, in which teachers share devices and ideas that have proven effective in their classes; and (5) Evaluation of Students, assessing when and how students should be evaluated and discussing teachers' thoughts on feedback and assessment both during and at the end of the course.

Teaching the Law School Curriculum

Friedland, Steven

Hess, Gerald

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Carolina Academic Press

Designed for law teachers who want to improve their teaching and students' learning, this book offers general teaching principles and dozens of concrete ideas. The first two chapters present foundational principles of learning and instruction as well as insights from students. The next 12 chapters address classroom dynamics, technology, questioning, discussion, collaborative learning, experiential learning, feedback, assessment, and continued development for teachers. Each of these 12 chapters introduces the topic based on educational research and then offers classroom-tested exercises, approaches, material, and methods contributed by veteran teachers. The co-authors/editors are experts in legal education pedagogy. Techniques for Teaching Law 2 retains the format of the first volume, but inroduces new content and new ideas that instructors of any level and background will find useful.

Techniques for Teaching Law

Legal Education

The second edition of Civil Procedure: A Context and Practice Casebook is thoroughly revised and updated to facilitate effective teaching and student learning. New principle cases illustrate current developments in personal jurisdiction, supplemental jurisdiction, pleading, discovery, and joinder. Each chapter includes new and revised notes and exercises. The accompanying teacher s manual reflects the changes in the casebook and includes 90 multiple choice questions to help professors and students assess the effectiveness of teaching and learning throughout the course. This book is part of the Context and Practice Series, edited by Michael Hunter Schwartz, Professor of Law and Dean of the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific.

Civil Procedure: A Context and Practice Casebook (Context and Practice Series)

Beiner, Theresa

Bauries, Scott

Rules & Procedures

Vishnubhakat, Saurabh

Designed for law teachers who want to improve their teaching and students' learning, this book offers general teaching principles and dozens of concrete ideas. The first two chapters present foundational principles of learning and instruction as well as insights from students. The next 12 chapters address classroom dynamics, technology, questioning, discussion, collaborative learning, experiential learning, feedback, assessment, and continued development for teachers. Each of these 12 chapters introduces the topic based on educational research and then offers classroom-tested exercises, approaches, material, and methods contributed by veteran teachers. The co-authors/editors are experts in legal education pedagogy. Techniques for Teaching Law 2 retains the format of the first volume, but inroduces new content and new ideas that instructors of any level and background will find useful.

Techniques for Teaching Law 2

Schwartz, Michael

Sparrow, Sophie

Professors Sophie Sparrow, Gerry Hess, and Michael Hunter Schwartz, three leaders in the teaching and learning movement in legal education, have collaborated to offer a new book designed to synthesize the latest research on teaching and learning for adjunct law professors. The book begins with basic principles of teaching and learning theory, provides insights into how law students experience traditional law teaching, and then guides law teachers through the entire process of teaching a course. The topics addressed include: how to plan a course; how to design a syllabus and select a text; how to plan individual class sessions; how to engage and motivate students, even those tough-to-crack second- and third-year students; how to use a wide variety of teaching techniques; how to evaluate student learning, both for the purposes of assigning grades and of improving student learning; and how to be a lifelong learner as a teacher.

Teaching Law by Design for Adjuncts

"This book discusses every aspect of assessment from the broad topics of creating a culture of assessment and the institutional assessment process to the more specific topics of assessing student learning at the course and program levels and assessing teaching effectiveness. The book models assessment at the institutional level, the course level, and throughout the law school (experiential learning programs, legal writing courses, centers and concentrations, extracurricular activities, non-academic offices). In addition to explaining the assessment process generally and in a variety of specific contexts, this book provides example assessment documents and tools that law schools can adapt as necessary. Moreover, the book offers suggestions for law schools on peer, student, and self-assessment of teaching effectiveness, both formative (ongoing teaching development) and summative (personnel decisions). Administrators, new professors, and seasoned professors will find guidance and advice on all aspects of assessing teaching and student learning"--

Assessment of Teaching and Learning: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Law Schools

Terry, Kelly

Grant, Emily

Simpson, Sandra

Structured into fifteen chapters, this book incorporates active learning and professional development within the study of civil procedure. With the exception of the introductory and conclusion chapters, each chapter starts with a problem to analyze and resolve during study of that chapter. Each new body of law is summarized and, in many instances, a simple example is provided. The introductions are followed by a series of cases, with problems and active learning exercises interspersed throughout. The book also includes graphics designed to give a visual sense of the concepts and reflection questions for further professional development. This book is part of the Context and Practice Series, edited by Michael Hunter Schwartz, Professor of Law and Dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law.

Professors Michael Hunter Schwartz, Sophie Sparrow, and Gerry Hess, leaders in legal education, have collaborated to offer a second edition of their book. Applying the research on teaching and learning, this book guides new and experienced law teachers through the process of designing and teaching a course. The book addresses how to plan a course; design a syllabus; plan individual class sessions; engage and motivate students; use a variety of teaching techniques; assess student learning; and how to be a life- long learner as a teacher. New chapters focus on creating lasting learning, experiential learning, and troubleshooting common teaching challenges.

Teaching Law by Design: Engaging Students from the Syllabus to the Final Exam

This book provides concrete suggestions for adjunct professors about how to design and conduct all aspects of teaching law students, based on the enormous body of research on teaching and learning to legal education. New and experienced adjuncts can apply the book's principles from sequencing a course to grading an exam. Updated and revised chapters provide a legal education-focused overview of the research on teaching and learning, students' perspective on law teaching and learning, course design, class design, student motivation, teaching methods, assessment, and professional development as teachers. New chapters focus on experiential learning, lasting learning, and troubleshooting.

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Teaching the Law School Curriculum

Techniques for Teaching Law

Civil Procedure: A Context and Practice Casebook (Context and Practice Series)

Civil Procedure: A Context and Practice Casebook (Context and Practice Series)

Techniques for Teaching Law 2

Teaching Law by Design for Adjuncts

Assessment of Teaching and Learning: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Law Schools

Civil Procedure: A Context and Practice Casebook (Context and Practice Series)

Teaching Law by Design: Engaging Students from the Syllabus to the Final Exam

Teaching Law by Design for Adjuncts