Legal Education/General
AALS Workshop for Women in Legal Education, "Getting Unstuck-Without Coming Unglued"
Oct 1 & 2, 1999
This site contains an extensive bibliography of hundreds of articles concerning women and legal education. The list is arranged according by headings such as Race and Gender Issues, Pedagogy (Curriculum and Teaching), and Comparative Perspectives.
Best Practices for Preparing Law Students to Practice Law (CLEA)
The Best Practices Project is a long-term effort to examine and describe the best practices for preparing students to practice law. The Project is an effort to identify the best educational practices around which effective educational programs can be designed.
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
CALI's objectives are to: coordinate distribution and use of computerized materials; support authors in the development of new instructional programs; sponsor research for advancing the quality and effectiveness of exercises; establish standards for hardware, software, and courseware support; and, coordinate the sharing of information relating to computer applications in legal education and the law.
The site contains sections for law faculty, students, and librarians. The site gives access to over 150 lessons (arranged by subject area), resources for faculty to write computer lessons, announcements of CALI's annual conference on law school computing, and the Journal of Law School Computing.
Centre for Legal Education (United Kingdom)
The Centre is the U.K.'s learning and teaching support network. It promotes the development of learning and teaching in legal education at both the academic and vocational training stages. It offers programs; collects and disseminates information; supports innovation in teaching and legal education research; supports academic networks in law; and offers advice and support to individuals and institutions.
The Centre "supports best practice in learning, teaching and assessment in law." This site provides links to information regarding problem based learning approaches, as well as information pertaining to the use of computer and information technology in legal education. It also contains bibliographies of articles on teaching and learning in legal education.
The Centre is interested in opening a dialogue with U.S. professors about scholarly ideas on teaching or new ideas about teaching different legal topics.
Externship Resources (CLEA)
The Clinical Legal Education Association maintains this portal site for all things related to legal externships.
Humanizing Law School
The site contains resources for students and for teachers. A group of legal educators have developed this site to help maximize the overall health, well being, and career satisfaction of law students and lawyers. They are interested in the ways legal education is conducted; the impact of the law school experience on the attitudes, values, health, and well being of law students; and the possible relationship between each of those matters and the problems experienced by our graduates in the legal profession.
JURIST
JURIST is an outstanding, comprehensive site for legal educators. A portion of its self-description follows:
JURIST is the Internet's legal education portal, the university-based academic gateway to authoritative legal information, instruction, and scholarship online. Edited and quality-controlled by a select team of NET-savvy professors from law schools across the Unites States and the world, JURIST is especially designed for individuals learning, teaching, or researching the law – legal scholars, law students, law librarians, lawyers and judges, and interested citizens.
JURIST for Canadian legal education.
JURIST for Australian legal education
JURIST for legal education in the United Kingdom
Renaissance Lawyer Society
"Teaching and Learning Law–Resources for Legal Education" by Barbara Glesner Fines
Professor Barbara Glesner Fines provides links to helpful articles about teaching and learning for three audiences; faculty, teaching assistants, and law students. The faculty section includes material on cooperative and small group learning, academic support, diversity, classroom assessment, learning theory, and technology. The teaching assistant section contains articles on peer teaching and links to five handbooks for TAs. The law student section addresses study skills in general and the study of the law in particular.
Teaching Cross-Cultural Lawyering Skills
"Five Habits for Cross-Cultural Lawyering" by Sue Bryant and Jean Koh Peters contains explanations, concrete examples, and exercises to avoid fallacies in thinking and to cultivate habits of clearer thinking. Its relevance is not limited to cultural issues. It is potentially useful in any class to help students learn to refrain from leaping to conclusions or prematurely diagnosing problems.
University of Dayton School of Law -- Online Academic Assistance for Law Students
This Web site, edited by Professor Vernellia Randall, looks at the various aspects of legal education related to students, teaching, and learning. It contains extensive content for students on habits, legal analysis, and exam taking. It provides links for law teachers concerning pedagogy and a section on service learning.
Washburn University School of Law Library
This site contains links to over 100 topical sites. The sites – ranging from law schools, to legal books, women in the law, and even every state in the union – are alphabetically organized. The Study Law link, for example, connects the user to links concerning outlines, study aides, other resource guides, and examinations. The Teaching Methods link, on the other hand, connects the user to Web site addresses enabling law school professors to subscribe to educational periodicals.
Legal Education/Examinations
FindLaw
This site provides links to examinations organized by school or by subject. Twenty schools may be accessed though the "Exams Listed By Schools" link. Subject links provide access to outlines and exams for 37 subject areas.
JURIST
This site begins with the following disclaimer:
The best advice on how to study for - and write - an exam will come from the law professor who teaches your class; the most useful "old exams" are exams written and made available for you by your professor. Law students may, however, find the following supplementary materials useful.
The site then lists the two categories of Guides and Collections as resources. The Guides section contains links to advice from law teachers on outlining, test preparation, and test-taking skills. The Collections portion provides links to the archived examinations of 10 law schools.
