Teaching & Learning Resources: Start Here

What makes a great law professor? The first study of its kind, What the Best Law Teachers Do identifies the methods, strategies, and personal traits of professors whose students achieve exceptional learning. What the Best Law Teachers Do introduces readers to twenty-six professors from law schools across the United States who are renowned for their exacting standards. With its close-to-the-ground accounts of exceptional educators in action, What the Best Law Teachers Do offers insights into effective pedagogy that transcend the boundaries of legal education.

Techniques for Teaching Law is designed to assist law teachers with the learning and teaching processes. Hess and Friedland begin each chapter with a description of the pedagogical underpinnings of a subject, followed by innovative teaching strategies from more than 100 veteran teachers.

Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching is intended to help you--a new law teacher--prepare for your first semesters in the classroom. It begins at the preliminary stages of planning a new course and takes you all the way to writing and grading your final exam. Authors Katz and O'Neill offer experience and insight to the tasks of coming up with teaching objectives, choosing your book, crafting your syllabus, and creating a classroom atmosphere that is conducive to learning.

The Law Professor's Handbook is designed as a guide for those who are transitioning to, engaged in, or contemplating a law school faculty position. Schachter offers information about the application process and factors to take into account in choosing amongst offers of faculty appointment. There's information about designing a course, crafting a syllabus, and choosing textual materials. In an effort to facilitate review of matters of particular interest, headings, a table of contents, and a detailed index have been included.

While there are many good books to aid those seeking a career in teaching, Miller's work seeks to fill the vacuum that currently exists in law teaching specifically. The 14 chapters--which follow a typical 14-week law school term--include the following topics: Course Objectives, Syllabi, Lectures, Socratic Method, Differentiating Instruction, Integrating Instruction, Assessment, Multiple Choice Questions, Essay Questions, and Scoring and Grading. There is also a beginning chapter on Pedagogy to help law professors appreciate the various theoretical schools on education and the history of law teaching, and a concluding chapter on Teaching Vision.