Law in Contemporary Society

View   r13  >  r12  ...
CLSEducationReform 13 - 17 Feb 2010 - Main.JonathanWaisnor
Line: 1 to 1
 Some data points:

+ A graduate recently told me that Columbia switched from an Excellent/Very Good/Good grading system to a letter system sometime in the 90's, in response to concerns that students weren't as competitive with out of town firms.

Line: 7 to 7
 - Without grades, there would probably be a lot less chatter on the wiki. -mz
Changed:
<
<		I thought I would also post/update a list of resources on grade reform. (cites to Westlaw)
>
>		I thought I would post/update a list of articles on school reform. (cites to Westlaw) Since the topic seems to be verboten for students to talk about right now, maybe it would be better to learn something about what more experienced people are saying.
 97 CLMLR 178 - An article by Judge Kozinski on what he sees as the problems with law school moot courts

30 W. St. U. L. Rev. 177 - Another article on a proposed non-curved feedback system

Changed:
<
<		-- JonathanWaisnor - 04 Feb 2010
>
>		60 Vand. L. Rev. 515- Professor Sturm of CLS and Lani Gunier writing on law school culture, conformity, competition, and reform.

-- JonathanWaisnor - 17 Feb 2010

 I'm not sure if this issue has been addressed anywhere, but since this topic is titled "CLS Education Reform," I thought it would be the most appropriate place to discuss something that I really struggled with last semester. I'm talking about the amount of reading we have and the "Socratic" method of teaching. There seems to me to be something very strange about a system of teaching where students are required to read 60+ dense pages each night, and then be able to answer extremely specific questions about that reading if a professor decides to call on them.

Revision 13r13 - 17 Feb 2010 - 20:28:04 - JonathanWaisnor
Revision 12r12 - 11 Feb 2010 - 21:29:03 - JonathanWaisnor
This site is powered by the TWiki collaboration platform.
All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
All material marked as authored by Eben Moglen is available under the license terms CC-BY-SA version 4.
Syndicate this site RSSATOM