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Today at noon EST: free HLS webinar on developing professionalism in students

 Developing Professionalism in Students Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W60Re3yDQRSfSPWgw0EP8Q Noon EST, March 21 What is professionalism for a lawyer? How can we as teachers help students develop professional identities in ways that honor their diversity and commitments? Norms of professionalism can be exclusionary, … Continue reading

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HLS teaching series: Developing Professionalism in Students, March 21, at 12 noon EST

Developing Professionalism in Students Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W60Re3yDQRSfSPWgw0EP8Q Noon EST, March 21 What is professionalism for a lawyer? How can we as teachers help students develop professional identities in ways that honor their diversity and commitments? Norms of professionalism can be exclusionary, … Continue reading

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Reminder: teaching first-generation students, free HLS webinar at 12 noon EST

Teaching First-Generation Law Students https://ift.tt/g3lKCtU First-generation students face unique challenges. Anthony Abraham Jack’s The Privileged Poor recently highlighted many of the invisible-to-professors barriers such students, especially first-generation students of color, face in college. What about when those students go to … Continue reading

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Two teaching events: teaching first-generation students and developing professionalism in students

Please circulate widely! Anyone with an interest in teaching is invited to this free Harvard Law School webinar in which expert teachers share their insights. Teaching First-Generation Students  March 10, Noon EST– register here. First-generation students face unique challenges. Anthony Abraham … Continue reading

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Reading list: The Powerpoint Channel

Lynn M. Lopucki, The Powerpoint Channel From the intro: This article seeks to contribute to the development of the PowerPoint channel by describing a theory and style for PowerPoint teaching of law. By “style” I mean a particular combination of … Continue reading

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Videos in conjunction with my advertising law class

 In this pandemic year, I’m experimenting with short videos as part of the pre-class materials. They generally elaborate on a point to set up class discussion. I’m sharing them because, as Tom Lehrer says, they might prove useful to some … Continue reading

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Reading list: Pam Samuelson on legal writing

Pamela Samuelson, Good Legal Writing: of Orwell and WindowPanes  From the archives: Excellent short piece on legal writing, for students and other legal writers of all kinds.  In itself, interesting to see how a groundbreaking female academic framed things in … Continue reading

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Announcing the Open Source Property Casebook

Straight from Jeremy Sheff: On behalf of myself and my co-authors (Steve Clowney, James Grimmelmann, Mike Grynberg, and Rebecca Tushnet), I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Open-Source Property, a completely free casebook for the 1L Property Law course. We would like to ask … Continue reading

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New article on self-publishing, with Eric Goldman

Eric Goldman and I have written Self-Publishing an Electronic Casebook Benefited Our Readers–And Us, in the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts. from Blogger http://ift.tt/1KTXYvt

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