Best Practices for Legal Education
"This site was created with two goals in mind: 1) to create a useful Web-based source of information on current reforms in legal education arising from the publication of Best Practices for Legal Education and the Carnegie Foundation’s Educating Lawyers; and 2) to create a place where those interested in the future of legal education can freely exchange ideas, concerns, and opinions. The blog’s discussion attempts to document and record the most recent innovations and academic experiments accompanying the legal education reform movement—and stimulate dialogue between and among all sectors of the legal academy."
Author: Editor Mary Lynch is a professor at Albany Law School. Among the other contributors are Carolyn Grose, an associate professor at William Mitchell College of Law; Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, associate dean for clinical affairs at University of New Mexico School of Law; Vanessa Merton,a professor at Pace Law School; Roy Stuckey a professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina School of Law; and Andrea A. Curcio, a law professor at Georgia State University.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Law Schools • Albany Law School • Georgia State University • Pace University • University of New Mexico • University of South Carolina • William Mitchell College of Law • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Best Practices for Legal Education
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Apprenticeships – a best practice?
I recently returned from Serbia and Macedonia on a Public Interest Law Institute trip to help assess which Balkan law schools should join PILI’s expanding legal education reform project. Some professors were surprised that US…
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Another Interdisciplinary Collaboration—this time with a Professor of German!
The University of New Mexico International Studies Institute has a relationship with the German government in which the Institute runs a summer program at a castle near Dusseldorf known as Schloss-Dyck. In summer 2010, I…
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Standards Review Committee
Anything new with the ABA Section of Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar’s Standards Review Committee? Best Practices devotees know that in Sept. 08 the committee began a comprehensive review of standards that includes…
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Cost of Legal Education
A recent GAO report, HIGHER EDUCATION: Issues Related to Law School Cost and Access is garnering attention in the blogosphere ( clinicians -with-not-enough-to-do, poverty law) and more conventional media. Responding to a GAO survey, law…
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Collaborative Externships Update
Almost seven months ago I blogged about the the Laurel Rubin Rural Externship Advocacy Project sponsored by the Washington State Access to Justice and the Law School’s committee. Externship Collaborations In June the Project was…
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Orientation Programs
A fun aspect of getting a few gray hairs: we might be around long enough to see our ideas come to fruition. Some years ago I wrote about the important role of experiential learning in…
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International Perspective on Best Practices Blog
I bet some of you missed the fact that October 5th is World Teachers’ Day. Yeah for us! Rah for the team! The UK’s Centre for Legal Education’s Digital Directions notes that the Best Practices…
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The Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program
John Burwell Garvey, of Franklin Pierce Law Center and Anne F. Zinkin, of the New Hampshire Supreme Court have published a paper entitled, “Making Law Students Client-Ready: A New Model in Legal Education.” The primary focus of the paper…
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Carrie Kaas and Mary Lynch’s Best Practices Presentation, or NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION
Best Practices Presentation Oct. 15, 2009 at So. New England School of Law
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Interdisciplinary Collaborative Education in Law Schools
A few weeks ago, we were fortunate to host a group of educators who are interested in interdisciplinary collaborative education in the form of partnerships between law schools and the health professions at a conference…