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Books on Law Teaching

Teaching Law by Robin L. West
Call Number: KF272 .W47 2014
ISBN: 9781107678194
Teaching Law re-imagines law school teaching and scholarship by going beyond crises now besetting the legal academy and examining deeper and longer-lasting challenges.
Best Practices for Legal Education by Roy T. Stuckey
Call Number: KF272 .S88 2007
Project by the Clinical Legal Education Association
Building on Best Practices Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World by Deborah Maranville; Lisa Radtke Bliss; Carolyn Wilkes Kaas; Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Call Number: KF273 .B848 2015
Building on Best Practices is a follow-up to Best Practices for Legal Education, a project of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA), authored primarily by Roy Stuckey. With contributions from more than 50 legal educators, this new volume is not a second edition, but is intended to be used in conjunction with the original volume, as the core content of Best Practices remains just as useful as when it was originally published.
Teaching the Law School Curriculum by Steven I. Friedland; Gerald Hess
Call Number: KF272 .F75 2004
ISBN: 9780890892442
The book offers guidance for new and experienced law teachers to plan and deliver effective courses. From Business Associations to Family Law, Federal Income Taxation to Torts, each chapter addresses one of the fifteen courses most students take during their legal education.
Techniques for Teaching Law 2 by Gerald F. Hess; Steven I. Friedland; Michael Hunter Schwartz; Sophie Sparrow
Call Number: KF272 .H47 2011 Faculty Lounge
Designed for law teachers who want to improve their teaching and students learning, this book offers general teaching principles and dozens of concrete ideas.
Transforming Legal Education by Paul Maharg
Call Number: K100 .M34 2007
ISBN: 9780754649700
Paul Maharg presents a critical inquiry into the identity and possibilities of legal education, and an exploration of transformational alternatives to our current theories and practices of teaching and learning the law.
What the Best Law Teachers Do by Michael Hunter Schwartz; Gerald F. Hess; Sophie M. Sparrow
Call Number: K100 .S39 2013 Faculty Lounge
ISBN: 9780674049147
The first study of its kind, What the Best Law Teachers Do identifies the methods, strategies, and personal traits of professors whose students achieve exceptional learning.
Teaching Law by Design by Michael Hunter Schwartz; Sophie Sparrow; Gerald F. Hess
Call Number: KF272.S37 2009 Faculty Lounge
The book begins with basic principles of teaching and learning theory, provides insights into how law students experience traditional law teaching, and then guides law teachers through the entire process of teaching a course.

Articles on Law Teaching

Gerald F. Hess, Seven Principles for Good Practice in Legal Education: History and Overview, 49 J. LEGAL EDUC. 367 (1999) and related articles:

Susan B. Apel, Principle 1: Good Practice Encourages Student-Faculty Contact, 49 J. LEGAL EDUC. 371 (1999)
David Dominguez, Principle 2: Good Practice Encourages Cooperation Among Students, 49 J. LEGAL EDUC. 386 (1999)
Gerald F. Hess, Principle 3: Good Practice Encourages Active Learning, 49 J. LEGAL EDUC. 401 (1999)
Terri LeClerq, Principle 4: Good Practice Gives Prompt Feedback, 49 J. LEGAL EDUC. 418 (1999)
R. Lawrence Dessem, Principle 5: Good Practice Emphasizes Time on Task, 49 J. LEGAL EDUC. 430 (1999)
Okianer Christian Dark, Principle 6: Good Practice Communicates High Expectations, 49 J. LEGAL EDUC. 441 (1999)
Paula Lustbader, Principle 7: Good Practice Respects Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning, 49 J. LEGAL EDUC. 448 (1999)
Faculty Inventories, Seven Principles for Good Practice in Legal Education, 49 J. LEGAL EDUC. 462 (1999)

Kent D. Syverud, Taking Students Seriously: A Guide for New Law Teachers, 43 J. Legal Educ. 247 (1993)

Paula M. Young, Bibliography of Books & Articles on Active Learning and Other Techniques for Teaching Law (2008)

The Law Library at New England Law maintains a bibliography of journal articles on teaching law.

Faculty Recommendations on Background Sources for Law Teachers

These are suggestions from Georgetown Law faculty responding to an email survey requesting recommendations for law teachers.

Guido Calabresi & Douglas Melamed, Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral, 85 Harv. L. Rev. 1089 (1972)
Ronald H. Coase, The Problem of Social Cost, 3 J. of L. & Econ 1 (1960)
Robert T. Cover, Violence and the Word, 95 Yale L.J. 1601 (1986)
Robert C. Ellickson, Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes
Call Number K370 .E45 1991
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Call Number PS3554.I33 S55 2000 LAUINGER
R.M. Dworkin, Law's Empire
Call Number K237 .D86 1986
John Fowles, The Magus
Call Number PR6056.O85 M3 1966 LAUINGER
Marc Galanter, Why the “Haves” Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change, 9 L. & Soc. Rev. 95 (1974)
H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law
Call Number K237 .H3 1978
Arthur Hogue, Origins of the Common Law
Call Number KD671 .H63 1985 INTL
Oliver W. Holmes, The Path of the Law, 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457 (1897)
Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
Call Number KF366 .H6 1977
Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960
Call Number KF380 .H67 1992
Duncan Kennedy, Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System
Call Number KF273 .K45 1983
Robin West, Teaching Law
Call Number KF272 .W47 2014 Faculty Lounge
The Paper Chase (film)

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