This essay covers the experiences of one professor’s time using the Inside-Out method of teaching, a method that offers law students experiential learning. This essay is apart of the Teaching Mass Incarceration Symposium.
Author: kinnear.18
Learning From Conflict: Reflections on Teaching About Race and Gender
This essay highlights the experiences of a professor who, through teaching at University of Pennsylvania, realized that their passion for teaching lied more-so in finding students equally committed to social justice as they were. It details how the law has changed and the landscape has shifted, and in turn how the students’ viewpoints have changed too.
Link: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/1002/
Teaching Scholarship Through a Seminar on The Wire
This article details a seminar in which different law review articles are matched with an episode from HBO’s The Wire.
Criminal Procedure: It Wasn’t Always So
This article is reflects on a “panel discussion about the ‘birth’ of criminal procedure as a course 50 years ago, which included faculty curriculum committee discussions, schools that made advances in adding these courses, and other schools following this lead.”
Link: https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/osjcl13&div=25&id=&page=
Encountering Attica: Documentary Filmmaking as Pedagological Tool
The article “Encountering Attica: Documentary Filmmaking as Pedagalogical Tool” is sourced from The Association of American Law Schools, Journal of Legal Education, and written by Teresa A. Miller from SUNY Buffalo Law School.”
Using Non-Fiction Films as Visual Texts in the First-Year Criminal Law Course
This article details the possible benefits of using movies and films in the classroom as supplemental learning materials for first-year law students.
Link: https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/vlr28&div=36&id=&page=
Teaching Prison Law
The article “Teaching Prison Law” is from a symposium titled “Teaching Mass Incarceration” and was sourced from the Criminal Legal News.
Moral Shock and Legal Education
“This essay is part of a journal of Legal Education symposium issue on how recent high profile revelations about racially discriminatory policing in Ferguson and elsewhere have affected the way law professors teach, think, and write and talk about criminal justice, civil rights, and law in general.” – Sourced from the Abstract on the landing page for this paper
Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2691805
Learning Communities: A New Model for Legal Education
This article discusses a new way of organizing legal education and suggests that learning communities can be organized around a specific topic such as federal drug policy.
Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2562086
Teaching Ethics in the Criminal Law Course
This article is sourced from the Saint Louis University Law Journal and discusses the importance of teaching ethics in tandem with teaching criminal law.
Link: https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1914&context=lj