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It\u27s Elementary. Let\u27s Play Rock, Paper, Scissors: Civil Procedure, Property, Contracts, and Torts During First-Year Law School Orientation
No full textCivil Procedure, Property, Contracts, and Torts are all standard first-year doctrinal law school courses. They provide law students with a solid legal foundation and expose them to American rule-based and precedent-based law. The first year of law school is also often a student’s first introduction to these legal subjects. First-year law students often fail to realize how the material taught in each of these classes complements what they are learning in the other classes. Students focus on learning the material and professors focus on transmitting the information in a comprehensible manner. First-year orientation can be an opportunity to introduce doctrinal material in a creative way to show the pragmatic interrelatedness of the first-year classes. This introduction does not require a complete retooling of the professor’s teaching style or semester syllabus. It can be accomplished by relying on traditional teaching techniques such as presenting the first-year students with an introduction which highlights how the first-year courses dovetail together. The notion of a preparatory introduction to American law at the beginning of a student’s legal studies is also not novel. American law schools have a long tradition of teaching introductory courses. It is time to reintroduce and modernize this practice. By framing an introductory or elementary law discussion in a fun and creative way during orientation, students will be both more willing to proceed on the academic journey and engage early and often with their professors. The game of Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS) is the perfect framing tool: the Rock, Paper and Scissors relate easily to Civil Procedure, Property Law, Contracts Law and Torts Law in a creative and innovative way to explain how these subjects co-exist. Civil Procedure provides the rules of the RPS game. Property law is represented by the Rock, Contracts law is represented by the Paper, and Torts law is represented by the Scissors. Relying upon RPS reimagined as the first-year curriculum, allows professors to present an overarching hypothetical to the incoming law students during orientation. Thereafter, professors segue into a discussion of the legal issues that arise in each class and demonstrate to students how the law acts as one cohesive entity made up of many individual and connected components
Enhancing Legal Education by Leveraging Rubrics for Comprehensive Outcome-Based Assessment.
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Using ChatGPT with subsequent sessions, Part One: AI Tools, Ethics, and Risks, Part Two: AI Tools & Prompting, and Questions and Answers
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No full textMember of the 2023-24 AALL AI and Legal Information Special Committee. Chair of Economic Status of Law Librarians Committee (2022-23). Chair of the Annual Meeting Program Committee (2019-20).Chair of the Business Skills Clinic Task Force (2014-15). Executive Board Member (2011-14).Administration Committee (2011-13). Various Executive Board Special Committees and Task Forces (2011-12). Board Liaison (2011-13).Membership Development Committee, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (2011-11).Appointments Committee (2008-09)
Beach Please: Implementing a New England Coastal States Open Beach Access Act
No full textThe New England states should modify their Coastal Zone Management programs to allow each state to implement a New England Open Beach Access Act. Each state with an ocean coastline would follow a uniform program for coastal zone management instead of following their own respective state-specific program. Regional specific zone programs, instead of individual state-run coastal zone programs will become more efficient at streamlining daily operations and maintaining a consistent regional coastal program over time. Currently, the federal Coastal Management Zone Act (CZMA) allows individual states to manage their coastal programs. The discord occurs when a bordering state defines boundaries, recreational uses, or rights in such a way that the sister state does not. Congress should amend the federal CZMA to allow for states wishing to join a regional specific Open Beach Access program the ability to do so without impairing their status in the Coastal Management Program or their allocation of federal funds. By implementing a New England Coastal States Open Beach Access Act, a consistent and uniform coastal program will lead to a more effective coastal management program, and to more public beach access in New England
It\u27s Elementary. Let\u27s Play Rock, Paper, Scissors: Civil Procedure, Property, Contracts, and Torts During First-Year Law School Orientation
No full textCivil Procedure, Property, Contracts, and Torts are all standard first-year doctrinal law school courses. They provide law students with a solid legal foundation and expose them to American rule-based and precedent-based law. The first year of law school is also often a student’s first introduction to these legal subjects. First-year law students often fail to realize how the material taught in each of these classes complements what they are learning in the other classes. Students focus on learning the material and professors focus on transmitting the information in a comprehensible manner. First-year orientation can be an opportunity to introduce doctrinal material in a creative way to show the pragmatic interrelatedness of the first-year classes. This introduction does not require a complete retooling of the professor’s teaching style or semester syllabus. It can be accomplished by relying on traditional teaching techniques such as presenting the first-year students with an introduction which highlights how the first-year courses dovetail together. The notion of a preparatory introduction to American law at the beginning of a student’s legal studies is also not novel. American law schools have a long tradition of teaching introductory courses. It is time to reintroduce and modernize this practice. By framing an introductory or elementary law discussion in a fun and creative way during orientation, students will be both more willing to proceed on the academic journey and engage early and often with their professors. The game of Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS) is the perfect framing tool: the Rock, Paper and Scissors relate easily to Civil Procedure, Property Law, Contracts Law and Torts Law in a creative and innovative way to explain how these subjects co-exist. Civil Procedure provides the rules of the RPS game. Property law is represented by the Rock, Contracts law is represented by the Paper, and Torts law is represented by the Scissors. Relying upon RPS reimagined as the first-year curriculum, allows professors to present an overarching hypothetical to the incoming law students during orientation. Thereafter, professors segue into a discussion of the legal issues that arise in each class and demonstrate to students how the law acts as one cohesive entity made up of many individual and connected component
SLED pays over $11K in sanctions for discovery abuse in Lowcountry hemp farmer suit
No full textCharleston School of Law professor Miller Shealy said he has rarely seen a circuit judge so severely admonish a defendant — much less the state’s premier law enforcement agency — for its conduct in discovery
