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The Stories We (Don't) Tell: Using Case Briefing to Explore Bias and Oppression in the Law
February 15, 2024 EDT
The Stories We (Don’t) Tell: Using Case Briefing to Explore Bias and Oppression in the Law
Ashley Binetti Armstrong

Case briefing should go beyond reporting the text on the page to investigate bias and oppression in the law.

The Unkillable Learning Styles Myth
February 15, 2024 EDT
The Unkillable Learning Styles Myth
Michael A. Blasie

Is it time to kill the Learning Styles Myth in law school classrooms?

Legal Writing and Faculty Pro Bono
February 15, 2024 EDT
Legal Writing and Faculty Pro Bono
Ezra Ross

The legal writing community should expand its discussion of community values to include faculty pro bono.

Front-Line Faculty and Systemic Burnout: Why More Faculty Should Attend to Law Students’ Mental Health and the Inequities Caused by Faculty Who Opt Out
March 01, 2023 EDT
Front-Line Faculty and Systemic Burnout: Why More Faculty Should Attend to Law Students’ Mental Health and the Inequities Caused by Faculty Who Opt Out
Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Depression and anxiety among law students during the pandemic have become a crisis. The challenge of teaching these students in these times must not be underestimated.

March 01, 2023 EDT
Using Intention-Setting Practices to Increase Student Engagement in the First-Year Legal Writing Classroom
Angela B. Debush

Professors can use intention-setting practices to shift the traditional top-down classroom dynamics that leave some students feeling overwhelmed or disengaged.

March 01, 2023 EDT
Teaching in the Midst of Trauma
Brenda D. Gibson

Law faculty and students are not fine, and law schools must respond.

Words We Manifest: How to Amplify Diverse Voices Through Course Materials in Lawyering Skills Courses
March 01, 2023 EDT
Words We Manifest: How to Amplify Diverse Voices Through Course Materials in Lawyering Skills Courses
Alireza Nourani-Dargiri

From a law student’s perspective: amplifying diverse voices in skills courses can be transformative for students and have a positive domino effect on the profession.

Centering Students' Rhetorical Knowledge: The Community of Inquiry as Formative Assessment
March 01, 2023 EDT
Centering Students’ Rhetorical Knowledge: The Community of Inquiry as Formative Assessment
Brian N. Larson

Peer review and classroom workshopping can develop a community of inquiry in the classroom.

Didn't I Cover That in Class? Low-Stakes Technique of Quizzing to the Rescue
March 01, 2023 EDT
Didn’t I Cover That in Class? Low-Stakes Technique of Quizzing to the Rescue
Robin Boyle-Laisure

This essay presents concrete ideas for incorporating low-stakes assessment into classes to make the information we teach stick.

Race Belongs in Week One of LRW
March 15, 2022 EDT
Race Belongs in Week One of LRW
Beth H. Wilensky

I couldn’t imagine bringing up race in LRW, much less at the very start of the year. Now, I can’t imagine the first week of LRW unfolding without it.

March 15, 2022 EDT
Identifying the Imposters in Your Legal Writing Classroom
Amy H. SoledBarbara Hoffman

The feeling of being an unequipped outsider—known as the imposter syndrome—is too often silently endured by law students and young attorneys.

March 15, 2022 EDT
Race and Lawyering in the Legal Writing Classroom
L. Danielle Tully

It’s September 2021. Race walks into my classroom. It walks in with me. It walks in with my students.