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Resources Specific to Online Legal Education
- CALI: Resources for Law Faculty On Remote Teaching Due To CoronavirusA wealth of resources compiled - start here first!
- Tips for Teaching Law Classes OnlineTips (including a video) from a law professor with previous experience teaching online.
- Emergency Online PedagogyAdvice about online pedagogy from Professor William Fisher of Harvard. Professor Fisher has taught online courses in Copyright Law and Patent Law. (March 14, 2020)
- Thoughts and Tips on Teaching with ZoomJosh Blackman (South Texas College of Law Houston) shares his thoughts (March 12, 2020)
Legal Scholarship on Online Legal Education
For additional suggestions, consult Pearl Goldman, Legal Education and Technology III: An Annotated Bibliography, 111 L. Lib. J. 325 (2019)
- Distance Legal Education: Lessons from the Virtual Classroom, 60 IDEA 71 (2020)A 2019 paper by Jacqueline D. Lipton (University of Pittsburgh School of Law) about her experiences with distance legal education.
- Assessing Online Learning in Law Schools: Students Say Online Classes Deliver, 96 Denver U. L. Rev. 493 (2019)Yvonne Dutton, Margaret Ryznar, and Kayleigh Long (Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law) present data on online instruction, including the online teaching methods that are most effective for students.
- The Seven Principles for Good Practice in (Asynchronous Online) Legal Education, 44 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. 105 (2018)Kenneth Swift (University of Houston Law Center) focuses on the online education aspect of three principles that are most prominent in current law school teaching and in academic debate: active learning and the case method, cooperative and group learning, and prompt formative assessment.
- Teaching a Live Synchronous Distance Learning Course: A Student Focused Approach, 2006 U. Ill.J. L. Tech & Pol'y 263 (2008)Ellen S. Podgor (Stetson University College of Law) provides an organized list of considerations in teaching a live synchronous electronic education class. It offers a detailed course planning checklist.
- The World at Their Fingertips? The Mental Wellbeing of Online Distance-Based Law Students, 53 Law Teacher: Int'l J. L. Ed. 49 (2019)Professors at The Open University Law School in London report on preliminary data gathered from an empirical study of the mental wellbeing of online distance learning law students.
- The Development of the Virtual Educational Space: How Transactional Online Teaching Can Prepare Today’s Law Graduates for Today’s Virtual Age, 6 Eur. J. L. Tech. (2015)Elizabeth Seul-gi Lee & Anneka Ferguson (Australia National University) explore the use of virtual educational spaces to support experiential learning in Australian legal education, with comparisons to the US.
- Online Learning and Transactional Skills Courses, 18 Transactions: Tenn. J. Business L. 521 (2016)Celeste M. Hammond (John Marshall Law School) shares ideas for creating online, synchronous exercises to use in a classroom course, in a blended course, or in a fully online course.
- Teaching Antitrust Online, 6 CPI Antitrust Chronicle 1 (2015)Max Huffman (Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law) discusses his experience moving his Antitrust Law class online
Current Awareness
- AALS Legal Education NewsContains links to a number of articles about adjusting to online instruction
- Twitter thread from Professor Orin Kerr at BerkeleyA good review of an experience migrating a traditional in-person class online (for the current COVID-19 emergency).