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Every Law School Should Have a Poet
May 05, 2025 EDT
Every Law School Should Have a Poet
Susan Ayres

A work of poetry

To Make Men Free
May 05, 2025 EDT
To Make Men Free
William L. Krayer

A work of poetry

Be Specific
May 05, 2025 EDT
Be Specific
Misti Duvall

A work of poetry

Enhancing the Legal Writing Curriculum with Provocative Quotes
April 19, 2025 EDT
Enhancing the Legal Writing Curriculum with Provocative Quotes
Alberto Rodriguez

Would you like to liven up classroom discussions and increase student participation? A provocative quote could do the trick.

February 15, 2024 EDT
The Stories We (Don’t) Tell: Using Case Briefing to Explore Bias and Oppression in the Law
Ashley Binetti Armstrong

Case briefing should go beyond reporting the text on the page to investigate bias and oppression in the law.

February 15, 2024 EDT
The Unkillable Learning Styles Myth
Michael A. Blasie

Is it time to kill the Learning Styles Myth in law school classrooms?

Legal Writing and Faculty Pro Bono
February 15, 2024 EDT
Legal Writing and Faculty Pro Bono
Ezra Ross

The legal writing community should expand its discussion of community values to include faculty pro bono.

Front-Line Faculty and Systemic Burnout: Why More Faculty Should Attend to Law Students’ Mental Health and the Inequities Caused by Faculty Who Opt Out
March 01, 2023 EDT
Front-Line Faculty and Systemic Burnout: Why More Faculty Should Attend to Law Students’ Mental Health and the Inequities Caused by Faculty Who Opt Out
Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Depression and anxiety among law students during the pandemic have become a crisis. The challenge of teaching these students in these times must not be underestimated.

Using Intention-Setting Practices to Increase Student Engagement in the First-Year Legal Writing Classroom
March 01, 2023 EDT
Using Intention-Setting Practices to Increase Student Engagement in the First-Year Legal Writing Classroom
Angela B. Debush

Professors can use intention-setting practices to shift the traditional top-down classroom dynamics that leave some students feeling overwhelmed or disengaged.

Teaching in the Midst of Trauma
March 01, 2023 EDT
Teaching in the Midst of Trauma
Brenda D. Gibson

Law faculty and students are not fine, and law schools must respond.

March 01, 2023 EDT
Words We Manifest: How to Amplify Diverse Voices Through Course Materials in Lawyering Skills Courses
Alireza Nourani-Dargiri

From a law student’s perspective: amplifying diverse voices in skills courses can be transformative for students and have a positive domino effect on the profession.

March 01, 2023 EDT
Centering Students’ Rhetorical Knowledge: The Community of Inquiry as Formative Assessment
Brian N. Larson

Peer review and classroom workshopping can develop a community of inquiry in the classroom.