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18 Law Tchr. 1 (2011-2012)

handle is hein.journals/lawteaer18 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume XVIII, HNumber 1 Inside... Teaching Thinking and the Legal Creative Process .......................................................... . 3 Teaching Students How to Evaluate a Written Work's Quality......................... 7 Music and the Law School Classroom .............. 8 On Supervising the Law Review Note............10 Teaching Advocacy through a Real Simulation........................11 Doctrine and Practice and Skills, Oh My: A First Year Curricular Experiment .............12 Crossword Puzzle: A Crash Course in the Law of Fair Use....................14 Let's Focus on Forms for Teaching.............16 Integrity Feedback......................18 W hy I Teach....................................................... 19 Fair Use Crossword Puzzle Solution ...............19 Board Member Column: Seeking Balance in a Tbilisi Classroom..............20 The 30% Rule...........................22 Book Review: Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting it Right When You Have To................................................... 23 Making Students Practice-Ready Is Not About Verisimilitude..................24 What's Past is Prologue: A Review of Current Issues in Constitutional Litigation: A Context and Practice Casebook...........26 Board Member Column: Small Scale Curriculum Mapping....................28 Google It: Responding to Tough Economic Times by Integrating Free Electronic Research in the Classroom...............30 Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Spring 2012 Conference Information...........31 Teaching On-Line Has Been a Great Experience for Me (Hopefully for my Students As Well)..................34 Student Column: Aligning Instructional Priorities with the Realities of Legal Practice................................. 36 Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Summer Conference Inf ormation..........37 INST ITUTE FOR .Aw TEACHING AND LEARNING Northeastern's Pathway to Practice Course: Legal Ethics and Professionalism on Co-op and Beyond By Luke Bierman, Northeastern University School of Law A t Northeastern University School of Law, we believe that effective teaching must be grounded in a curriculum that integrates theory and practice. At the same time, we place great emphasis on the public interest and social justice issues at the heart of our legal system and the rule of law. This year we introduced a team-designed and taught course that prepares our students for their first cooperative education experience, an essential cornerstone in our unique legal education model. All Northeastern law students complete a traditional first year of classroom- based study. Then, in their upper-level years, they alternate academic quarters with co-ops, Northeastern's term for full-time field placements in law firms, legal services organizations, government agencies, and other legal settings throughout the US and world. Through their co-op experiences, students put into practice what they've learned in the classroom. By the time they graduate, with almost a full year of hands-on experience under their belts, the students have had the chance to explore different practice settings and areas of the law and are ready to hit the ground running as young lawyers. While we have developed many excellent programs and processes over the years to prepare our students for their first co-op, we decided there was even more we could do to ensure their success as they headed out of the classroom and into the real legal world. This year, we introduced a mandatory course to enhance students' preparation for their co-op experience. Pathway to Practice: Legal Ethics and Professionalism on Co- op and Beyond is an intensive, week- long immersion course that students take just before they head into their first co-ops. We launched this course because there was a sense among our faculty and students returning from co-ops that they hadn't received enough ethics instruction and professionalism training during the first year to fully support them in their initial foray into the world of practice. We taught the course for the first time in May 2011, immediately after 1L exams were over. Reflecting Northeastern's commitment to collaboration, the - continued on page 2 THE LAW TEACHER I FALL 2011 I 1 FALL 2011

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