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Online Teaching and E-Tutorials
Association of Law Teachers
Includes news, a bulletin, conference information and other 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 Australia
Now hosted by Macquarie University. Includes sections on learning and teaching law (with subsections on Australian Law Schools - courses, staff, libraries, journals etc), faculty services - resources for law teachers, student services, courses, law teachers on the web, conferences and positions available), researching law (sub-sections on legal news, Australian law locator, Australian law journals, research centres, articles online, proceedings, resource pages, reference desk and more), information about jurist and more general information from Jurist (including legal news from around the world)
JURIST Canada
JURIST: The Legal Education Network - Canadian site. Includes a section on teaching law, teaching jobs, general legal information and news and plenty more - including great links.
JURIST EU
JURIST: The Legal Education Network - EU site. Includes a section on teaching law, teaching jobs, general legal information and news and plenty more - including great links
JURIST Portugal
Not in English. JURIST: The Legal Education Network - Portugese site. Includes a section on teaching law, teaching jobs, general legal information and news and plenty more.
JURIST UK
Part of the US site.
JURIST USA
JURIST: The Legal Education Network - US site. Includes a section on teaching law, teaching jobs, general legal information and news and plenty more - including great links.
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.
Australian Law Teachers' Association
A Beginner's Guide to Legal Education
Site by Professor James Enkins, College of Law, West Virginia University
A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence
By Barbara Gross Davis, Lynn Wood and Robert Wilson. Divided into 25 useful sections
A plug for the 'traditional approach' to teaching law
By Prof Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law, 1994. This essay originally appeared in The Law Teacher (1994)
Assuring quality in legal education
Article at the UK Centre for Legal Education
Bored Third Years? Think Again
Artilce by Gerry Hess in The Law Teacher (Fall 2001)
Every Case Has Two Stories
Article Sue Liemer in The Law Teacher (Spring 2001)
Individual Experiences can stimulate student interest
Article by Robert Whitman in 'The Law Teacher' (Spring 1994)
Information and Advice for Persons Interested in Teaching Law
Prepared by Brian Leiter (University of Texas), September 2000
Law Teaching Tools
Series of articles at Jurist
Learning in Law Initiative
At this site you can join (or leave) the discussion list for learning in law. It also includes archives of the initiative
Make the Student the Professor
Article by Katharine F. Nelson in The Law Teacher (Fall 2001)
Professional Legal Education: Pedagogical and Strategic Issues
Article by Sharon Hunter-Taylor in UTS Law Review, 2001
Reading is Critical
Article by Lyndal Taylor, Helen Bonanno, Arlene Harvey and Karen Scouller in University of Technology, Sydney
Law Review, 2001
Teaching Active Reading
Article by Sheila Simon in The Law Teacher (Spring 2001)
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
Teaching Law
Information, articles and links to resources at Jurist
The Law Teacher
Newsletter of the Institute for Law School Teaching - several issues available
Technology in Teaching
Article by Prof. Lydia Pallas Loren, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College
The Beckerman-Rodau Method: A New Approach to Teaching Law
By Professor Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Sufolk University Law School. Originally published in the Journal of Legal Education, Volume 41(2) at 299 (1991)
University of Technology Sydney Law Review, Issue 3, 2001
Issues in Legal Education
Using Technology in Education
Article by Rodney O. Fong
Visual Imagery and Law Teaching
Excerpt from the book Techniques for Teaching Law by Gerald Hess and Steve Friedland at the Institute for Law School Teaching
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
Explanation at the University of Chicago Law School
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
Adventures in Powerpoint
Article by Alison Sulentic in The Law Teacher (1999). From the Institute for Law School Teaching.
Technology in Teaching (including Powerpoint)
Article by Prof. Lydia Pallas Loren, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College
Online teaching and e-tutorials
A Review of the Development of an Internet Delivered LL.M Program in the United States
Refereed article published in JILT 2001 by Professor William H Byrnes, IV Executive Director, LLM, International Tax Planning and Offshore Financial Centers, St. Thomas University School of Law, USA
American Legal Education: Moving from the Classroom Without Paper to Instruction Without the Classroom?
Refereed article David A. Thomas Professor of Law, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, published in the Journal of Information Law and Technology. This is a revised version of a paper presented at the 15th Annual BILETA Conference, 13-14 April 2000, University of Warwick, UK. Available to view online or download in RTF format
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
Computerising Legal Education: What's in Store?
Refereed article by Robin Widdison published on 29 October 1999. The citation is: Widdison R, 'Computerising Legal Education: What's in Store?', 1999 (3) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT).
Designing a Successful Web-Based Tutorial
Article by Bill Taylor at LLRX.com, 16 April 2001.
Developing Multimedia Flexible Teaching and Learning Packages: Valuing New Genres of Legal Scholarship
Refereed article by M J Le Brun (Visiting Associate Professor of Law, City University of Hong Kong) published on 7 November 2001 (Full citation: Le Brun, M J, 'Developing Multimedia Flexible Teaching and Learning Packages:Valuing New Genres of Legal Scholarship', 2001 (3) Journal of Information Law and Technology (JILT) <http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/01-3/lebrun.html>. The article is available to view online or download in RTF format
Discoursing the Virtual Classroom
Paliwala A, 'Discoursing the Virtual Classroom', 2001 (3) Journal of Information Law and Technology (JILT). This is a editorial comment published on 7 November 2001. The article is available to view online or download in RTF format
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
IOLISplus - Extending the Electronic Learning Environment
Refereed article by David Grantham published on 26 February 1999. This is a paper presented at the 1999 Learning in Law Initiative Conference (Challenge and Change in Law Teaching) The citation is: Grantham D, 'IOLISplus - Extending the Electronic Learning Environment', 1999 (1) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT).
Learning in Cyberspace
Article by Professor Abdul Paliwala in the Journal of Information, Law and Technology. According to the site, "This paper is a revised version of a paper presented to the 5th International Conference on Law in the Information Society, IDG, Florence, December 1998, and an update to the paper published in JILT in 1999 (3).". It can also be downloaded in word format
Order in the Virtual Classroom
Woods R H, 'Order in the Virtual Law Classroom - Order in the Virtual Law Classroom' - A Closer Look at American Law Schools in Cyberspace: Constructing Multiple Instructional Strategies for Effective Internet-based Legal', Refereed article, 2001 (3) Journal of Information Law and Technology (JILT). This article was published on 7 November 2001. Dr Robert H Woods, Jr, J.D is the Assistant Professor of Communication Department of Communication, Spring Arbor University, Spring Arbor, Michigan, USA. The article is available to view online or download in RTF format
Teaching Law
Information, articles and links to resources at Jurist
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 Information and Communications Technology 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
