Teaching and Learning Articles
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Articles and Essays by Gerry Hess
"Value of Variety: An Organizing Principle to Enhance Teaching and Learning," 3 Elon Law Review 65 (2011). [Read fulltext (100 KB PDF)]
"Developing a Skills and Professionalism Curriculum: Process and Product," 41 University of Toledo Law Review 327 (2010) (co-authored with Earl Martin). [221 KB PDF]
"Professional Skills and Values in Legal Education: The GPS Model," 43 Valparaiso University Law Review 513 (2009) (co-authored with Stephen Gerst). [2.2 MB PDF]
"What Helps Law Professors Develop as Teachers?: An Empirical Study," 14 Widener Law Review 149 (2008) (co-author with Sophie Sparrow). [2 MB PDF]
"Collaborative Course Design: Not My Course, Not Their Course, but Our Course," 47 Washburn Law Journal 367 (2008). [139 KB PDF]
"Improving Teaching and Learning in Law School: Faculty Development Research, Principles, and Programs," 12 Widener Law Review 443 (2006). [2 MB PDF]
"Learning to Think Like a Teacher: Reflective Journals for Legal Educators," 38 Gonzaga Law Review (2003). [1.4 MB PDF]
"Hearts and Heads: Creating an Effective Teaching and Learning Environment in Law School," 52 Journal of Legal Education 75 (2002). [2 MB PDF]
"Monographs on Teaching and Learning for Legal Educators," Special Edition, Gonzaga Law Review 63 (2000). [2.4 MB PDF]
"Principle 3: Good Practice Encourages Active Learning," 49 Journal of Legal Education 401 (1999). [880 KB PDF]
"Seven Principles of Good Practice for Legal Education: History and Overview," 49 Journal of Legal Educucation 367 (1999). [233 KB PDF]
"Student Involvement in Improving Law Teaching and Learning," 67 UMKC Law Review 343 (1998). [1.5 MB PDF]
"The Legal Educator's Guide to Periodicals on Teaching and Learning," 67 UMKC Law Review 367 (1998). [1.3 MB PDF]
"Listening to Our Students: Obstructing and Enhancing Learning in Law School," 31 University of San Francisco Law Review 941 (1997). [1.4 MB PDF]
Articles and Essays by Michael Hunter Schwartz
"Improving Legal Education by Improving Casebooks: Fourteen Things Casebooks Can Do to Produce Better and More Learning," 3 Elon Law Review 27 (2011). [Read fulltext (139 KB PDF)]
"Humanizing Legal Education: An Introduction to a Symposium Whose Time Came," 47 Washburn Law Journal 235 (2008). [Read fulltext (88 KB PDF)]
"Teaching Law Students to be Self-Regulated Learners," 2003 Michigan State Detroit College of Law Law Review 447 (Summer 2003). [Read fulltext (2.8 MB PDF)]
"Teaching Law by Design: How Learning Theory and Instructional Design Can Inform and Reform Law Teaching," 38 San Diego Law Review 347 (2001). [Read fulltext (5.7 MB PDF)]
"Using Course Webpages to Fill Gaps in Traditional Law School Instruction," Jurist: Lessons from the Web (March 2003). [Read fulltext]
