Guides: Teaching law & Higher Education Policy
Useful Web Sites | Articles and Guides on Teaching Law | The Socratic Method | Powerpoint and other technology
Online Teaching and E-Tutorials | University Teaching Generally | 
Useful web sites
Deakin Institute of Teaching and Learning
Includes Deakin teaching guidelines and other teaching related resources
BILETA
British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association. Site includes the following sections: Conference Papers and Publications, BILETA Responses, BILETA Annual Conference, BILETA Discussion and email lists, Membership List, Research Awards, New ICT Resource Page and a search engine.
JURIST Canada
Includes a section on teaching law, teaching jobs, general legal information and news and plenty more - including great links.
Teaching and Learning Law - Resources for Legal Education
By Professor Barbara Glesner Fines, University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law. Includes sections on Teaching Law: For Peer Teachers, Teaching Law: For Faculty, Learning Law: for Law Students and more
UK Centre for Legal Education
Includes numerous resources - part of the Learning and Teaching Support Network in the UK. Resources include a mailing list and sections on problem based learning, assessment, personal development, quality assurance and more. Newsletters and reviews also available.
Articles and Guides on Legal Teaching
Law-specific
Australian Law Teachers' Association
- ALTA conference papers 2007
This includes several articles relating to teaching law, including 'Legal Education Today: Teaching to Actively Engage Law Students- New Approaches to the Use of Decided Cases' (Michael Blissenden); 'The Contracts Vignettes: Cost Effective Podcasting Producing Quality Learning Outcomes in First Year Contract Law' (Des Butler); Going to the Movies: Legal Education, Problem Based Learning and Public Policy (Kathy Douglas & Michele Ruyters'The Challenges of Adopting New Integrated Technology Strategies- Integrated E-Learning and Blended Learning into Existing LLB Units' (John Juriansz); 'The Use of Technology to Create an Interactive Learning Environment For Internal and Distance Students' (Feona Sayles & Debra Wilson), Developing Course Outcomes and an Integrated Curriculum at the University of Western Australia Law School (Natalie Skead & Normann Witzleb)
Institute for Law School Teaching
Resources available at Gonzaga University
Professional Legal Education: Pedagogical and Strategic Issues
Article by Sharon Hunter-Taylor in UTS Law Review, 2001
Quality assurance in legal education
Article at the UK Centre for Legal Education
Reading is Critical
Article by Lyndal Taylor, Helen Bonanno, Arlene Harvey and Karen Scouller in University of Technology, Sydney
Law Review, 2001
Shreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
At Penn State University
University of Technology Sydney Law Review, Issue 3, 2001
Issues in Legal Education
Other teaching guides and resources
A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence
By Barbara Gross Davis, Lynn Wood and Robert Wilson. Divided into 25 useful sections
Tools for Teaching
From Barbara Gross Davis, University of California, Berkeley
The Socratic Method
Mahola Socratic Method Resources
Links to Socratic Method resources on the web.
Socrates and the Socratic Method
Article by James R. Elkins headed 'Practical Moral Philosophy for Lawyers'
The Socratic Method - The Princeton Review
Overview
The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling
Article by Rick Garlikov. This looks at using the Socratic method in primary school teaching rather than legal teaching
Teaching with Powerpoint and other technology
Technology in Teaching
Article by Prof. Lydia Pallas Loren, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College
Online teaching and e-tutorials
Bringing the Internet to the Classroom: Some Beginner Steps
Article (2002) by Debra Moss Curtis, Assistant Professor of Law, Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University - published at Jurist
Designing a Successful Web-Based Tutorial
Article by Bill Taylor at LLRX.com, 16 April 2001.
Hi-Tech Law School: The Suffolk Experience
Jursit Column (2001) by Professor Lisle Baker, Suffolk University School of Law
Internet Team Teaching: One Team's Experience
Column in Jurist (2001) by Professor Theresa Player University of San Diego School of Law, Professor Michael Norwood, University of New Mexico School of Law and Professor Robert Seibel CUNY Law School, Queens, New York
There Is Something Foul in Legal Education. And the Internet Is Part of the Cure
Colun in Jurist (2000) by Peter Tillers, Cardozo School of Law
Using e-Learning in Legal Education
Includes sections on video streaming, computer-mediated conferencing, using the www, links to other relevant sites and much, much more.
Web Tutorials for Teaching Legal Research
Colun in Jurist (2001) by Gretchen Van Dam - Adjunct Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law and Circuit Librarian, U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
University teaching generally
Guidelines on learning
Guidelines of UNSW - includes links to some terrific resources.
