Our faculty had a lunch discussion of non-traditional legal scholarship and publishing today. As someone who sees growing convergence between scholarship in law and scholarship in other disciplines and who wonders how long the pre-Internet model of legal publishing is likely to persist, I started thinking about the classifying function of traditional legal scholarship.
Continue Reading...Anyone who has taken a marketing course (or sold drugs in Baltimore) would realize the importance of rebranding. Merely restating the curriculum as Torts, Contracts, etc. would not be innovative.
Many of us teach those tools of the trade in a single course, but suffer from a branding problem. “The actual real day how you would do it in real life practice of antitrust law course” would have too long a name.
I’m not sure I agree that the “what-do-you-think-method” is bad. It can be a good tool if used properly. I use it to make students craft remedies for antitrust violations so that they can see the consequences of knee jerk reactions in terms of regulation or free market philosophy.
Here is the “innovative curriculum” at the new UC Irvine Law School. It’s not really very innovative, even though it has different names for the courses, but it does scrap the traditional curriculum and try something different. One thing that looks interesting about this curriculum is that it seems to repeat the what-do-you-think-and-how-do-you-feel-about-this-court-opinion method a little less.
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One of the most important faculty functions (apart from the education of budding lawyers) is to appraise the abilities of students based upon a single snapshot known as the “final exam” or “final.” The grade ultimately earned by the exam taker reflects the professor’s appraisal of the student based solely on what the student wrote on that exam.
The difficulty with grading is not with the administering of the final exam, but rather how students and faculty perceive the discourse on grades.
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