Seeking Chapter Proposals for "Lawyering Skills in the Doctrinal Classroom"

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Call for Chapter Proposals

Lawyering Skills in the Doctrinal Classroom: Using Legal Writing Pedagogy to Enhance Teaching Across the Law School Curriculum

Lawyering Skills in the Doctrinal Classroom will explore how pedagogical methods used in legal writing courses can be (or have been) adapted for use in traditional doctrinal courses in order to provide a more robust learning experience for law students. Chapter topics may include:

• Incorporating writing and research assignments into doctrinal courses;
• Techniques for making student conferences more productive;
• The use of “scaffolding” to enhance learning – and how to do it;
• How to incorporate team-based learning and/or problem-based learning to increase student engagement;
• The importance of providing formative assessment in doctrinal courses and how to do it in a timely and efficient manner;
• Unique ways of providing students with feedback that they can use
• Any other pedagogical method typically used in legal writing courses that could be of use in other courses
Proposals should include:
• The author’s name, institutional affiliation, and courses taught
• A brief description of the proposed topic (no more than 500 words)
• A brief description of why the author is qualified to write on this particular topic (no more than 300 words)
• An approximate word count (chapters should be at least 3,000 words and no longer than 8,000 words)
Deadline: December 14, 2018.

Submit proposals to Tammy Pettinato Oltz at ta[email protected] with the subject line, “Chapter Proposal.”

Comments

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I am sorry to be so snarky here. Whomever wrote this proposal, has never stepped foot inside a real courtroom. Most judges have absolutely no time nor patience to read anything too verbose. Court time is a precious and limited resource. Especially if the Deputy, (Bailiff), court reporter, and PO are ready for lunch at 11:45.If you can't say or show it in five words or less, you lost your client's case.