What the Best Law Teachers
Do
(Harvard University Press) (forthcoming 2011).
Techniques for Teaching
Law II
(Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2011).
Teaching Law by Design for
Adjuncts
(Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2010) (with Sophie Sparrow and
Gerald Hess).
Remedies: Problems, Cases
& Materials
(Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2010) (with Carole Buckner
and Sophie Sparrow).
Contracts: A Context and
Practice Casebook Teacher's Manual (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic
Press, 2009).
Contracts: A Context and
Practice Casebook (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press,
2009) (with Denise Riebe).
Teaching Law By Design:
Engaging Students From the Syllabus to the Final Exam (Durham,
N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2009) (with Sophie Sparrow and Gerry Hess).
Expert Learning for Law
Students.
2nd edition. (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2008).
Expert Learning for Law
Students Workbook. 2nd edition. (Durham, N.C.: Carolina
Academic Press, 2008).
Journal
articles
"The Little Lies We Tell
Ourselves and Our Students: Seven Commonly Held Myths about Law School and
Teaching and Learning," The Law Teacher (spring 2011).
"Lessons Learned in the
Design of an Undergraduate Data Mining Course," Journal of Computing
Sciences in Colleges 26(5): 189-95 (May 2011)
"Improving Legal education
by Improving Casebooks: Fourteen Things Casebooks Can Do to Produce Better
and More Learning," Elon Law Review (fall 2010).
"Humanizing Legal Education:
An Introduction to a Symposium Whose Time Came," 47 Washburn Law
Journal 235 (2008).
"Work Smart: Excel in Law
School by Becoming an Expert Learner," 13:1 CLEO Edge Magazine 39
(winter/spring 2008).
Presentations
"Innovations in
Teaching" "What the Best Law Teachers Do" and
"Leadership in Learning: Views from Georgia," Thomas M. Cooley
Law School, Grand Rapids, Mich., September 2011
"Creating Law Practice Simulations
in Large Classes: A Master Class on Teaching Methodology," Tblisi,
Republic of Georgia, May 2011
"Lessons Learned in the
Design of an Undergraduate Data Mining Course," Consortium for
Computing Sciences in Colleges Central Plains Conference, Warrensburg,
Mo., April 2011
"Expert Learning for Law
Students," Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Del., April
2011
"What the Best Law Teachers
Do," Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.,
April 2011
"Expert Learning for Law
Students," Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Del., April
2011
"What the Best Law Teachers
Do," Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, Fla.,
March 2011
"What the Best Law Teachers
Do," University of Houston Law Center, March 2011
"Assessment Planning,"
"Selecting Teaching Methods" and Course (Re)Design," Salmon
P. Chse College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights,
March 2011
"Developing the Next
Generation of Lawyers: What Law Schools Are Doing to Prepare Practice-Ready
Graduates," NALP - The Association for Legal Career
Professionals/American Law Institute-American Bar Association Professional
Development Institute Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2010
Faculty Development Workshop on
Assessment, St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas,
September 2010
Faculty Development Workshop on
Expert Learning, University of Detroit (Mich.) Mercy School of Law,
September 2010
Faculty Development Workshop on
Teaching Methods, Florida A&M University College of Law, Orlando,
September 2010
Faculty Development Workshop on
Assessment, St. John's University School of Law, Queens, New York,
September 2010
Faculty Development Workshop,
Charlotte (N.C.) School of Law, September 2010
"The Future of Casebooks,
Publishing and Course Materials," Conference of the Southeastern
Association of Law Schools, West Palm Beach, Fla., August 2010
"Ex-L in Law School
Training," Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Florida
International University School of Law, Miami, June 2010
"Ex-L in Law School
Training," Council on Legal Education Opportunity, University of
Missouri School of Law, Columbia, June 2010
"Teaching Law for Engaged
Learning," Elon University School of Law, Greensboro, N.C., April
2010
Conducted faculty teaching workshop,
John Marshall Law School, Atlanta, Ga., February 2010
"What the Best Law Teachers
Do," Howard University School of Law, Washington, D.C., February 2010
"Classroom Assessment
Techniques," adjunct faculty workshop, Washburn University School of
Law, February 2010
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, Nova Southeastern School of Law, Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., January 2010
"Who Am I? The Role of Legal
Education in Shaping Professional Identities" and "What the Best
Law Teachers Do," Presidential Program II - Transformative Teaching
and Institution-Building, American Association of Law Schools Meeting, New
Orleans, La., January 2010
Conducted teaching, learning and
assessment workshop, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Detroit,
Mich., November 2009
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati,
Ohio, October 2009
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, October
2009
"What the Best Law Teachers
Do," University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, September 2009
"Assessment of Students: A
(Group) Test" and "'Righting' the Student Evaluation Form,"
Legal Education at the Crossroads III: Assessment, University of Denver
(Colo.) Sturm College of Law, September 2009
"What the Best Law Teachers
Do," faculty teaching development workshop, Lewis & Clark Law
School, Portland, Ore., September 2009
"Legal Analysis Education:
It's Not What the Carnegie Report Cracked It Up to Be," Yes We
Carnegie: Change in Legal Education After the Carnegie Report, The John
Marshall Law School, Chicago, Ill., July 2009
"Ex-L in Law School
Training" (workshop), Council on Legal Education Opportunity,
Southern Illinois University School of Law, Carbondale, June 2009
"Ex-L in Law School
Training" workshop, Council on Legal Education Opportunity,
University of Pittsburgh (Pa.) School of Law, June 2009
"Raising the Curtain on
Learning and Technology: Selecting the Right Technology to Accomplish Your
Goals" and "In-Class Instant Messaging: An Additional Tool for
Engaging Your Students," LSAC Academic Assistance Training Workshop,
St. Louis (Mo.) University School of Law, June 2009
Facilitated faculty retreat on
curriculum reform, University of San Francisco (Calif.) School of Law, May
2009
"Curriculum Reform:
Impetuses and Models," Pace University School of Law, White Plains,
N.Y., March 2009
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, University of Miami College of Law, Coral Gables,
Fla., March 2009
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio,
February 2009.
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore,
Md., February 2009
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, Hoftsra University School of Law, Hempstead, N.Y.,
January 2009
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of
Law, Montgomery, Ala., January 2009
Educational Outcomes and Outcome
Assessment," ABA Standards Review Committee, San Diego, Calif.,
January 2009
"Teaching to the Entire
Class: Innovative and Effective Instruction to Engage Every Student,"
"Educating Lawyers and Best Practices for Legal Education: A Mandate
to Humanize the Law School Experience" and "Unwrapping the
Shroud of Secrecy: What Law Professors Can Learn from Bar Examiners"
(moderator), AALS Annual Meeting, San Diego, Calif., January 2009
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, University of North Carolina School of Law, December
2008
"What the Best Law Teachers
Do," Boston (Mass.) College Law School, November 2008
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, "Beyond Socratic Questioning and Cooperative
Learning: Seven Additional Tools for Engaging Your Students," Gonzaga
University School of Law, October 2008
"Improving Learning to
Improve Bar Pass and Other Outcomes," American Bar Association Bar
Exam Passage Conference, Chicago, Ill., October 2008
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, "Formative Assessment in Large, Doctrinal
Courses," Sturm College of Law, University of Denver, Colo., October
2008
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, Tulsa (Okla.) University School of Law, September
2008
"Teaching Techniques for Bar
Pass," LSAC Bar Preparation Workshop, Southwestern Law School, Los
Angeles, Calif., September 2008
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign,
September 2008
"Institutional Process for
Making It Happen," Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference:
Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum,
University of Washington School of Law Seattle, September 2008
"Whole Curriculum Projects:
Reforming the Curriculum at Small, Limited Resource State Law
Schools" (moderator), "First-Year Projects Integrating the
Cognitive, Skills and Professional Formation Apprenticeships (moderator)
and "Five Days, Three Apprenticeships, One Orientation: Towards a
Model First Week Curriculum" (showcase presenter), Legal Education at
the Crossroads Conference: Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for
an Integrated Curriculum, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle,
Washington, Sept. 6, 2008.
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, Calif., August 2008
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, Calif., August
2008
"The Faint Scent of Change:
Legal Education at the Crossroads," Topeka Bar Association, August
2008
"Law School Teaching Methods
that Even Socrates Would Admire: How Law Schools Can Move Toward Meeting
Best Practices in Legal Education" (panelist) Southeastern
Association of Law Schools annual meeting, Palm Beach, Fla., July 2008
"Bar Exam Prep Course
Seeking Long Term Relationship: Legal Writing, Academic Support, Both, or
Something Else?" (panelist) Legal Writing Institute Biennial
Conference, Indianapolis, Ind., July 2008
"Getting in a Groove:
Organizational Tools to Help Students Synthesize, Manage, and Retrieve
Information," "It's All In the Wind up, Swing, and
Follow-through: Preparing Before Class, Learning While In Class, and
Holding on to the Right Material After Class (moderator) and "The ASP
Commitment to Professional Excellence" (with Ruth Ann McKinney), LSAC
Academic Assistance Workshop for New Academic Support Professionals,
University of Maryland, Baltimore, June 2008
"Design Options for Academic
Support Programs," Mercer University School of Law, May 2008
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of
Law, April 2008
Conducted partner-associate
training, Davis, Polk & Wardell, New York, N.Y., April 2008
Conducted partner-associate
training, University of Tulsa College of Law, April 2008
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, March 2008
Conducted faculty teaching
development workshop, University of La Verne College of Law, March 2008
"New Law Professors as
Catalysts for Change" (moderator), AALS Annual Meeting, New Law Professors
Section, New York, N.Y., January 2008
Office/appointments
Academic Curriculum Coordinator,
Council on Legal Education Opportunity, 2011
Chairman-elect, American
Association of Law Schools, Section on Academic Support
Treasurer, American Association
of Law Schools, Section on Teaching Methods, 2010-11
Co-director, Institute for Law
Teaching and Learning, 2009-
Board of directors, Kansas Legal
Services
Board of advisers, Institute for
Law School Teaching
Other
Created Podcast and supporting
materials, "Expert Learning for Law Students," LSAC Academic
Assistance Website (spring 2009)
Contributing author, Center for
Engaged Learning in the Law Blog 2008-
Contributing author, Best
Practices in Legal Education Blog 2008-
Conference planner, Implementing
Best Practices and Educating Lawyers: Teaching Skills and Professionalism
Across the Curriculum, Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Gonzaga
University School of Law, Spokane, Wash., June 2009
Conference planner, Workshop on
Innovative Teaching Methods & Materials: A Conference for Authors in
Carolina Academic Press' "Context and Practice Series", Washburn
University School of Law, May 2009
Conference planning committee,
Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference: Ideas to Accomplishments:
Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, University of Washington
School of Law, Seattle, September 2008
