Implementing Effective Education in Specific Contexts

Abstract

This chapter of Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World includes contributions from many authors:

• Section A, The Socratic Method, is by Elizabeth G. Porter
• Section B, Analysis, Research, and Communication in Skills-Focused Courses, is by Ruth Anne Robbins, Amy Sloan & Kristen K. Tiscione
• Section C, Use of Technology in Teaching, is by Michele Pistone and Warren Binford
• Section D, Law Libraries and Legal Education, is by Jonathan Franklin
• Section E, Cross-Border Teaching and Collaboration, is by Kimberly D. Ambrose, William H. D. Fernholz, Catherine F. Klein, Dana Raigrodski, Stephen A. Rosenbaum & Leah Wortham
• Section F, Experiential Education, includes:
  • Incorporating Experiential Education Throughout the Curriculum, by Deborah Maranville with Cynthia Batt, Lisa Radtke Bliss & Corolyn Wilkes Kaas
  • Delivering Effective Education in In-House Clinics, by Lisa Radtke Bliss & Donald C. Peters
  • Delivering Effective Education in Externship Programs, by Carolyn Wilkes Kaas with Cynthia Batt, Dena Bauman & Daniel Schaffzin, and
  • Ensuring Effective Education in Alternative Clinical Models, by Deborah Maranville

Chapter 1 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637100

Chapter 2 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637068

Chapter 3 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637102

Chapter 4 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637490

Chapter 6 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637499

Chapter 7 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637541

Chapter 8 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637544

The content of this SSRN posting is material that was published in the book Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World, Maranville, et al., Lexis Nexis 2015. The content has been posted on SSRN with the express permission of Lexis Nexis and of Carolina Academic Press, publisher of the book as of January 1, 2016.

Keywords: law schools, legal education, law students, experiential learning, experiential education, law clinics, clinical education, Socratic method, skills training, educational technology, law libraries, foreign students, international students, international programs, externships, fieldwork, simulations