by Corinne Cooper
Use of graphics is a powerful educational tool. This book (65 pages) covers both the "why" and "how" of using graphics in law school classrooms. Professor Cooper begins with a summary of learning and schemata theories and the role of visuals to aid students' understanding of complex ideas. Then she describes the functions and types of graphics, including tabulation, timeline, chart, reconstruction, continuum, diad, diagram, graph, matrix, flowchart, Venn diagram, illustration, and picture. Numerous examples of graphics used in various law school courses are included. The book ends with practical tips for designing visuals. Cost: $20.00. To order a copy, contact the Institute.
About Professor Cooper
Corinne Cooper was a workshop presenter at the Institute's 1994 teaching conference. The title of her workshop was "Getting Graphic: Using Visual Tools to Teach and Learn Law." Corinne Cooper is a professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Law. She has been teaching UCC, contracts, negotiation, and lawyering skills since 1982. Before beginning her teaching career, she practiced banking law in Phoenix, Arizona, with the firm of Streich, Lang. She has written extensively on alternative dispute resolution and commercial law. She is the coauthor, with Bruce Meyerson, of A Drafter's Guide to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ABA 1992). She is the editor of Getting Graphic: Visual Tools for Teaching and Learning UCC and Bankruptcy Law (AALS 1992) and The Portable UCC (ABA 1993). In addition to her teaching and writing, she is a member of the commercial arbitration and mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association, and a member of the Council of the ABA Section of Business Law. She has lectured widely on banking, commercial law, mediation, and negotiation strategy and skills. She appears in the three-part video, "What Every Litigator Should Know About Mediation" (ABA 1993). Professor Cooper has been a visitor at the law schools of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Arizona, and the University of Colorado, as well as at the School of Business at the University of Kansas.
A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Arizona College of Law, she has also attended The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, studying financial analysis and economic policy. She has also worked as a speechwriter and policy analyst for a gubernatorial campaign and hosted a call-in radio show on politics and society. In her spare moments, she gardens.
