Pandemic Pedagogy: Duties to Clients During Disruptions
Clinical Law Prof Blog (By Jeff Baker) — Professor Baker (Pepperdine Law) shares his timely lesson plan on a lawyer’s duties to clients during times of disruption.
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Teach Law Better (By Abigail Perdue) — Professor Perdue (Wake Forest Law) provides some best practices for using videoconferencing for oral arguments.
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Best Practices for Legal Education (By Mary A. Lynch) — Professor Lynch (Albany Law) shares a video from professor Michael Bruening (Missouri University of Science and Technology) singing a parody of Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 hit “I Will Survive,” about the adjustment to online teaching.
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TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares that all ABA accredited law schools have shifted online due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — The author shares a statement from university library copyright specialists advising faculty on how to navigate fair use and DMCA regulations while remote teaching.
Read More about Fair Use And Emergency Remote Teaching And ResearchSome thoughts about (and mostly against) pass-fail law school grading during Covid-19
Excess of Democracy (By Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (Pepperdine Law) argues against using pass-fail grading for law classes due to the disruption caused by the pandemic. He also shares the opinion of law faculty supportive of the move to pass-fail.
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ABA JOURNAL — As of Thursday there were no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Ithaca, New York. Cornell University wants to keep it that way, which is why although the campus is open now, students will be finishing the term remotely starting April 6, when spring break ends.
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — As the coronavirus spreads across the country, leading some campuses to shift instruction online temporarily, Clemson has a handle on what it takes to help its professors transition to remote teaching. Most colleges are planning for a potential or actual disruption this spring. So can other institutions learn from Clemson’s…
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — The coronavirus has colleges and universities swinging into action to move courses online. In the coming weeks, we’ll find out just how prepared (or not) academe is to do this on a large scale. Those of us in online teaching and educational technology have moved quickly to help, too, and it’s astonishing…
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EDUCAUSE — This resource page was created to help higher education institutions plan for possible campus disruption by COVID-19, or Coronavirus 19—a respiratory disease caused by a novel (new) coronavirus. This virus has been detected in the United States (CDC, COVID19 Summary). For further information concerning the source and spread of the disease:
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