This article focuses on two gaps in the modern criminal law course: “the sevenfold growth in the incarcerated population that happened after 1972” and the “massive ‘War on Drugs’ that exploded in the United States between 1985 and 1995.”
Link: https://jle.aals.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=home
This article details how a professor may encourage a discussion of explicit and implicit biases in a criminal law course, which will not only create better and more socially aware lawyers but also improve the learning environment for any and all law students.
Link: https://jle.aals.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1535&context=home
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.
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/
This article details a seminar in which different law review articles are matched with an episode from HBO’s The Wire.
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=
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.”
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=
The article “Teaching Prison Law” is from a symposium titled “Teaching Mass Incarceration” and was sourced from the Criminal Legal News.
“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