Teaching Resources for Law Faculty

Active Learning

• James McGrath, Planning Your Class to Take Advantage of Highly Effective Learning Techniques, 95 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 153 (2018)
• Renee N. Allen & Alicia R. Jackson, Contemporary Teaching Strategies: Effectively Engaging Millennials Across the Curriculum, 95 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 1 (2017)
• Cynthia Ho, et al., An Active-Learning Approach to Teaching Tough Topics: Personal Jurisdiction as an Example, 65 J. Legal Educ. 772 (2016)

Team Based Learning

• Janet Weinstein et al., Teaching Teamwork to Law Students, 63 J. Legal Educ. 36 (2013)
• Sophie M. Sparrow & Margaret Sova McCabe, Team-Based Learning in Law, 18 J. Leg. Writing Inst. 153 (2012)
• Anne E. Mullins, Team-Based Learning: Innovative Pedagogy in Legal Writing, 49 U.S.F.L. Rev. F. 53 (2015)
• Jodi S. Balsam, Teaming Up to Learn in the Doctrinal Classroom, 68 J. Legal Educ. 261 (2019)

Socratic Method

• Jeannie Suk Gersen, The Socratic Method in the Age of Trauma, 130 Harv. L. Rev. 2320 (2017)
• Jamie R. Abrams, Reframing the Socratic Method, 64 J. Legal Educ. 562 (2015)
• Joseph A. Dickinson, Understanding the Socratic Method in Law School Teaching After the Carnegie Foundation's Educating Lawyers, 31 W. New Eng. L. Rev. 97 (2009)

Simulation

• Margaret M. Jackson, From Seminar to Simulation: Wading Out To The Third Wave, 19 J. Gender Race & Just. 127 (2016)
• Paul S. Ferber, Adult Learning Theory and Simulations - Designing Simulations to Educate Lawyers, 9 Clinical L. Rev. 417 (2002)

Flipped Classroom

• Alex B. Matamoros, Answering the Call: Flipping the Classroom To Prepare Practice-Ready Attorneys, 43 Cap. U. L. Rev. 113 (2015)
• William R. Slomanson, Blended Learning: A Flipped Classroom Experiment, 64 J. Legal Educ. 93 (2014)

General Resources (books are available at the Law Library)

• Teaching Pedagogy Videos, LegalED