Albany Law's Centers provide countless opportunities for every student. The Government Law Center takes advantage of the School's location in New York's capital and the seat of state government. Through the Clinic & Justice Center they represent low-income clients in real cases. The Center for Law & Innovation involves students in legal concerns affecting high-tech fields.
The 2007 publications of the
Carnegie Report and Best Practices for Legal Education prompted American
legal educators to reevaluate how well law schools prepare their graduates
for modern legal practice, and subsequently incited a reform movement which
challenges whether traditional methods of providing instruction and
structuring curriculum result in desired and/or assumed
outcomes.
Strategies and Techniques of Law
School Teaching, by Howard E. Katz & Kevin Francis O'Neill
(2009). For more on this book click here.
Teaching Law by Design: Engaging Students from the Syllabus
to the Final Exam, by Gerald Hess, Sophie Sparrow, & Michael
Schwartz (2009).
The Law Teacher, published by The
Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Spring 2009,
Law School 2.0:
Legal Education for a Digital Age, byDavid I. C.
Thomson, (2009). For more on this book click here.
Teaching Empathy Through Simulation
Exercises - A Guide and Sample Problem Set, (2008), by Barbara
Glesner-Fines. (SSRN Abstract)
Teaching about the Nexus
between Law and Society: From Pedagogy to Andragogy, by
Patricia L. Easteal, 18 Legal Education
Review 163 (2008). (SSRN Abstract)
Harnessing the Extraordinary Power of Learning
Teams, in Team Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups
(Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2004)(eds. Larry Michaelsen, Arletta
Knight, and Dee Fink). (Available here.)
Integrating
Learning Strategies into Teaching, in Essays in Teaching
Excellence: Toward the Best in the Academy, by Terry Doyle. (Available here.)
Delivering
Instruction - Course Specific
Practically
Grounded: Convergence of Land Use Law Pedagogy and Best Practices, 60
Journal of Legal Education ___ (2010), By Patricia Salkin & John Nolon.
(SSRN Abstract)
Tribal Law and Best
Practices in Legal Education: Creating a New Path for the Study of Tribal
Law, 19 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 63 (2009), by Aliza
G. Organick (SSRN
Abstract)
Externships
LexTern
Web, hosted by the Catholic University of America School of
Law
Legal Education Reform -
Generally
‘Best Practices': What's
the Point?, 16 Clinical Law Review 321 (2009), by Ira P. Robbins. (SSRN Abstract)
'Best Practices' or
Not, it is Time to Re-Think Legal Education, 16 Clinical Law Review
301 (2009), by Roy Stuckey. (SSRN Abstract)
Best Practices on
‘Best Practices': Legal Education and Beyond, 16 Clinical
Law Review 69 (2009) by Ira P. Robbins. (SSRN Abstract)
Reframing Legal
Education's "Wicked Problems", 61 Rutgers Law Review
867 (2009) by Judith Welch Wegner. (SSRN Abstract)
Legal Research
& Writing
Best Practices: What
First-Year Law Students Should Learn in a Legal Research Class, Legal
Reference Services Quarterly (2009), by Nancy P. Johnson. (SSRN Abstract)
Legal Research as a
Fundamental Skill: A Lifeboat for Students & Law Schools, 39 U.
Balt. L. Rev. 175 (2009), by Sarah Valentine. (SSRN Abstract)
Socrates and Langdell in
Legal Writing: Is the Socratic Method a Proper Tool for Legal Writing
Courses? 43 Cal. W.L.Rev. 267 (2007), by Jeffrey D.
Jackson.
Using Actual Legal Work to Teach Legal Research and
Writing, 4 J. of the Ass'n of Legal Writing Directors 10 (2007),
by Michael A. Millemann. (Published Online)
Library Research Labs: A
Hands-On Approach to Taking the First Step with Your Students to Reflect
Good Practice in Legal Education, 14 Perspectives: Teaching Legal
Research and Writing 73 (2006), by Samantha A. Moppett and Richard
Buckingham. (SSRN Abstract)
Teaching Legal Research and
Writing with Actual Legal Work: Extending Clinical Education into the First
Year, 12 Clinical L. Rev. 441 (2006), by Michael A. Millemann and
Stephen D. Schwinn. (SSRN Abstract)
Outcome Measures
Making Law Students Client-Ready: A New Model in
Legal Education. 1 Duke Forum for Law & Social Change
101 (2009), by John Burwell Garvey and Anne F. Zinkin. (SSRN Abstract).
Outcomes
Assessment for Law Schools, by Gregory Munro. Spokane: Institute for
Law School Teaching, Gonzaga University School of Law,
2000.
Professional
Identity
Pitfalls Ahead: A Manifesto for the
Training of Lawyers, by Anita Bernstein (2009). (SSRN Abstract)
What Law Schools Should
Teach Future Transactional Lawyers: Perspectives from Practice, by
Michael Woronoff (SSRN Abstract)
Student Learning
Leading Change in Legal Education - Educating
Lawyers and Best Practices: Good News for Diversity, 18 Seattle
University Law Review 775 (2008), by Antoinette Sedillo-Lopez
(SSRN
Abstract)
Law Students are Different from the General
Population: Empirical Findings Regarding Learning Styles,
17 Perspecitives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 155 (2009), by
Robin Boyle, Jeffrey Minnetti & Andrea Honigsfeld. (SSRN Abstract)
Law School and Bar Examination Performance:
Developing an Empirical Model to Test Whether Required Writing Exercises
or Other Changes in Large-Section Law Class Teaching Methodologies Result
in Improved Exam Performance, 57 J. Legal Educ. 195 (2007), by Andrea
A. Curcio et al.
Harnessing the Extraordinary Power of Learning
Teams, in Team Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups
(Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2004)(eds. Larry Michaelsen, Arletta
Knight, and Dee Fink). (Available here.)
Technology in the
Classroom
Law School 2.0: Legal Education for a
Digital Age, byDavid I. C. Thomson, (2009). For more on
this book click here.
Legal
Education in the Age of Cognitive Science & Advanced
Technology, Ohio State Public Law Working
Paper No.94, by Deborah Merritt (SSRN Abstract)