Tag Archives: Experiential

Bylaws and business meetings: a 1L experiential module

Teaching students something about bylaws and business meetings helps alleviate the all-litigation experiential curriculum of the 1L year. It engages students, assists with professional identity development, and sure as heck is useful and immediately applicable. Read more detail on Recent … Continue reading

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Friday Roundup: Experiential Learning, Legal Outcomes, Legal Ethics, and More

A roundup of the week’s news from the worlds of legal technology and innovation: Albany Law program will prepare students for high-tech careers. Three upstate New York educational institutions — Albany Law School, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and the Research Foundation for SUNY … Continue reading

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If 6 Turned Out To Be 9, I Don’t Mind (But 3? or 2!): The Uneven Implementation of Mandatory Experiential Credits

Robert Kuehn, Washington University School of Law, blog post author  Legal education took almost 100 years before requiring that all J.D. students receive instruction in professional skills and, even then in 2014, acted modestly. In adopting a six-credit experiential coursework … Continue reading

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Embracing experiential learning: Law school choices lead to jobs (or not)

I have only been teaching at Vanderbilt Law School for six years, and no one will make the mistake and call me an academic (I’m a pracademic). However, teaching experimental and skills based courses like Mediation and Legal Project Management … Continue reading

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Deep Dive into Experiential Education in U.S. Law Schools

In May 2017, Eduardo Capulong (Montana) moderated a lunch presentation at the AALS Clinic Directors Conference on the new experiential education requirement found in ABA Standard 303, which requires one or more experiential courses totaling at least six credit hours.  … Continue reading

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