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Sunday, January 5, 2003
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1:30-3:15 p.m.
Joint Program of Sections on Clinical Legal Education and Teaching Methods
- Carol L. Izumi, The George Washington University, and Chair, Section on Clinical Legal Education
- Deborah A. Maranville, University of Washington, and Chair, Section on Teaching Methods
- Annette Appell, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Program Co-Chair
- Joan W. Howarth, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Program Co-Chair
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Maryland Suite B & C
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
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Where Are We Headed? Improving the Competence of Law Schools
Moderator
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Judith W. Wegner, University of North Carolina
Speakers: - Margaret Martin Barry, The Catholic University of America
- Marjorie Maguire Shultz, University of California at Berkeley
- Sheldon Zedeck, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Lawyers and legal academics are examining law school roles and methods of instruction, informed by both learning theory and the type of skills and knowledge required for a high level of law practice. This interactive program will, through panel presentations, and audience response, review where we are in this inquiry and attempt to unify some of its themes. The session will bring together three important and dynamic projects that are currently examining legal education and moving us closer to our highest aspirations for teaching future lawyers. Professor Barry will present the Best Practices Project of the Clinical Legal Education Association. That project, begun in summer 2001, is a work in process that seeks to develop a framework for discussing, assessing, and improving how and what we teach our students. Professors Shultz and Zedeck will present their research funded by the Law School Admissions Council to define success as a law school and as an attorney with more precision. The first part of their project uses empirical research to define what qualities or skills a good lawyer possesses. The second phase will focus on how to test for these capacities. Professor Wegner will moderate and respond to these presentations in light of her own work on legal education with the Carnegie Foundation on Higher Education. She has conducted a two-part study of legal education in North America that describes and critiques legal education and prescribes improved methods of assessing and teaching students at various stages of law school. In light of the experience or even expertise in legal education that each will bring to the session, the audience will be encouraged to offer commentary on these initiatives and share information about other projects to improve legal education. |
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