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Etl Conference 2013

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Curricular Innovation
Curricular Innovation
IAALS’ work in legal education began with a commitment to supporting curricular innovation and collaboration among legal educators.
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Flipping the Switch on Legal Education
Flipping the Switch on Legal Education
At our 2nd Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference, we honored Bill Henderson with our Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Award. Afterward, he delivered a keynote address (video here) focused on the significance of the role played by legal educators and the change that is coming. Talking about his own experience with a professor as a later-in-life college senior, he said that educators have the power to "flip the switch."
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Transforming Legal Education in Six Minutes, Twenty Slides
Transforming Legal Education in Six Minutes, Twenty Slides
This year, we tried something new at the Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference. During the reception, we opened the floor to four short presentations by participants who wanted to share an idea with our audience of legal educators, practitioners, and judges. It was, by all counts, a resounding success and we plan to expand it next year. They were a conference highlight and certainly worth six minutes.
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ETL Collaborations Help Lead the Way in Improving Legal Education
ETL Collaborations Help Lead the Way in Improving Legal Education
In a recent article for The Recorder, Rachel Van Cleave, dean of Golden Gate University School of Law, an Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Consortium School, champions the efforts of ETL and its collaborative approach to changing legal education. Dean Van Cleave suggests that experiential learning opportunities, like clinics and simulation courses, can be expanded even further to give students a more well-rounded education that exposes them to broader skill sets that are sought by law firms.
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The Bench and Bar's Responsibility in the Development of Entry-Level Lawyers
The Bench and Bar's Responsibility in the Development of Entry-Level Lawyers
One of my primary responsibilities as Counsel to the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court is to start and maintain dialogue among Colorado's law schools, bench, and bar in an effort to find and promote commonality among their efforts to improve our state's legal profession. Naturally, then, I was interested in attending the 2013 Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers conference, which sought to connect the legal academy and members of the legal profession.
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Conference Gives Legal Profession a Voice in the Future of Legal Education
Conference Gives Legal Profession a Voice in the Future of Legal Education
Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers announces its second annual conference, which will focus on connecting the profession and the academy to ensure that law graduates are prepared to begin a career of service to clients, service to the legal system, and service to society. Conference participants will focus on how to design and deliver a modern legal education that educates lawyers to the highest standards of competence and professionalism.
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Law School: Is Two Years Enough?
Law School: Is Two Years Enough?
Last week, during a town hall at Binghamton University, President Obama jumped into the legal education fray when he suggested that law schools could increase the value of a law degree without sacrificing its quality by moving from a three-year program to a two-year program. The two-year/three-year debate has been alive and well in legal education reform circles for some time, but the President’s comments catapulted the conversation into the national spotlight. What do you think?
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The Biggest Surprise About the ABA Task Force's Working Paper on the Future of Legal Education
The Biggest Surprise About the ABA Task Force's Working Paper on the Future of Legal Education
The ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education released its Working Paper late last week. If you have been following the discussions, you’ve heard about the current landscape of legal education and you may not find many surprises in this precursor to the final report. But here’s what is surprising: everyone seems to agree that the Task Force is on the right track. The Working Paper describes initiatives that can facilitate change, and cites our Consortium of law schools as a promising example. And our 2nd Annual Conference focuses on three key highlights from the Working Paper.
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