From Professor Susan D. Rozelle at Capital University Law School:
In putting new class preps together, I have benefited from the generosity of friends who shared with me their syllabi, teaching notes, PowerPoints, handouts, practice problems, you name it. Having those resources to build from that first time through was indescribably helpful. I understood the material faster and more thoroughly myself, I felt more confident, and I was able to explain it better in class ….
If you’re willing to share your teaching materials with folks putting together a new prep, click here to let us know which courses you’re able to help with and which casebook you use. We aren’t soliciting any teaching materials themselves, just the names and contact information of those who would be willing to share if asked.
At the moment, I’m imagining the list would be linked to the New Law Professors Section homepage …. Hopefully, we’ll gather enough volunteers that any newer professor looking for help putting together a new prep would be able to go to the list and find someone to contact for help.
A worthy endeavor. Students post lots of our (copyrighted) material to the web, despite faculty prevention efforts. This way, at least a colleague can get the correct version of our lecture notes.
-Bridget Crawford
What a great idea! And, if I might make a special request, I’d be very interested in hearing from anyone who has taught Business Associations or Corporations and has included critical, feminist, or other alternative perspectives. I’m guessing Feminist Law Professors is a better place to make post this query than some of the traditional corporate law-oriented blogs.
If you’re new to teaching legal writing, the Idea Bank is a fantastic resource, with downloadable course materials, including class exercises, legal writing problems, and syllabi. It’s a function of the Legal Writing Institute and “housed” on a server at Rutgers-Camden. It was moved from print format to an online format several years ago, thanks to the ideas and efforts of Ruth Anne Robbins and Carol Wallinger — both at Rutgers-Camden. It is password protected, but I believe the password page provides a link through which you can request a password — all new teachers are eligible for a password; experienced teachers can receive a password by contributing to the Idea Bank.
You can access the Idea Bank through the Legal Writing Institute’s main page — scroll through the menu on the left side. http://www.lwionline.org
Tracy McGaugh