Proposals

I. Professional Development Proposals

Birte Gall (Bucerius Law School, Germany)
      Internationalization and Post-J.D. Executive Education – The Bucerius Model

Michael Kelly (Former Dean, University of Maryland School of Law)
     Teaching Decision-Making in Law Schools: Promotion of Experimentation; Collection, Analysis and Dissemination of Materials; Creation of an Organization to Encourage Decision-Making Pedagogy in Law School Curricula

Lisa Kloppenberg, James Durham, Eric Chaffee, Lori Shaw (University of Dayton School of Law)
     A Time of Transition: The Need for Capstone Courses in American Legal Education

Christine Mooney (Villanova University School of Law) and Rachel Littman (Pace Law School)
     Models for Forming Partnerships Between Legal Educators and Legal Practitioners

David Oppenheimer and Kristen Holmquist (University of California Berkeley School of Law)
     The “Identification, Development, and Validation of Predictors for Successful Lawyering” Report and its Potential Relevance to Law School Admissions, Legal Education/Pedagogy and Bar/Professional Licensing Exams

Lori Shaw (University of Dayton School of Law); Brannon Denning, Henry (“Corky”) Strickland; Howard Walthall (Samford University Cumberland School of Law)
     Outcome Assessment Rocks!! Shifting from an Input to an Output Approach in Legal Education

Emily Spieler, Susan Maze Rothstein, Martha Davis (Northeastern University School of Law)
     Building Professional Collaborations: A Law-Business-Employer Team Model at Northeastern University School of Law

Tina Stark (Emory University School of Law); Eric Chaffee (University of Dayton School of Law)
     A Transactional Skills Curriculum for a New Century: The Need to Incorporate Practical Business and Transactional Skills Training into the Curricula of America’s Law Schools

David Wilkins and Cory Way (Harvard Law School)
      “Cradle to Grave” Professional Development

II. Technology-Related Proposals

Barbara Bernier (Florida A&M University College of Law)
     The Millennium Law School: Building Technology and Innovation into the Legal Education Framework

Barry Currier (Concord Law School of Kaplan University)
     “Blended Course” Project – Creating, Developing, Teaching and Evaluating One Basic/Core Law School Course in a Blended Learning Format

Larry Farmer and Vance Everett (Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School); Matt Gardner & Grace D'Alo (Penn State Dickinson School of Law); Allison Rice & Wayne Miller (Duke Law School); Greg Clinton (North Carolina Central Law School); Will Monroe (Louisiana State University Paul M. Herbert Law Center); Megan Welch (Legal Practitioner); Herve Depow & Ellen Zweibel (University of Ottawa Law School); Bob Seibel (California Western School of Law)
     Distance Learning Innovations in Legal Education

John Garvey (University of New Hampshire School of Law) and Paul Maharg (Northumbria University, U.K.)
     Standardized Clients and SIMPLE (SIMulated Professional Learning Environment): Learning Professionalism through Simulated Practice

Oliver Goodenough, Mike McCann, and Rebecca Purdom (Vermont Law School)
      Comprehensive Review of Distance Learning Potential

Marc Lauritsen (Capstone Practice Systems); Oliver Goodenough (Vermont Law School); Brian Donnelly (Columbia Law School); Brock Rutter (State of Vermont/Berkman Center); Blair Janis (Wealth Counsel and BYU Law School); David Johnson (New York Law School); John Mayer (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction); Larry Farmer (BYU Law School); Richard Grant (MyCounsel); Ron Staudt (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
      Law Learning by Building Software Applications

Nicholas Spindler (New York Law School '11); Mariko Gaines (New York Law School '11); Paul Lippe (Legal OnRamp); Howard Meyers (New York Law School); Tanina Rostain (New York Law School)
     Legal OnRamp: Grand Rounds – Proxy Ramp Demonstration Project

David Johnson (Center for Democracy and Technology) and Tanina Rostain (New York Law School)
     Law Practice Simulation

III. Structural/Regulatory Proposals

Michele DeStefano Beardslee (University of Miami School of Law)
      Law Without Walls^TM: Evloving Legal Education and Practice

William Byrnes (Thomas Jefferson School of Law)
      The Future of Legal Education 2.0

William Henderson (Indiana University Maurer School of Law); Jerome Organ (University of St. Thomas School of Law); Patrick Longan (Mercer University School of Law); John Berry (Florida Bar); Clark Cunningham (Georgia State University)
     Are We Making a Difference? Developing Outcome Measures to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Law School Efforts to Teach Ethics and Develop Professionalism

Rick Matasar (New York Law School)
      Proposal for Accelerating Acquisition of a Law Degree

Jim Moliterno (Washington & Lee University School of Law)
      Washington & Lee University Law School’s Experiential Third Year Curriculum

Thomas Morgan (George Washington University School of Law)
     ABA Accreditation Standards Should be Revised to Prohibit Merit Scholarships in Excess of 10% of a Law School’s Total Expenditures for Financial Aid

Jerome Organ (University of St. Thomas School of Law)
     A Proposal to Develop an SEC-Style Disclosure Model to Promote Greater Transparency by Law Schools Regarding Information Relating to "Investment" in Legal Education

Archana Sridhar and Jane Kidner (University of Toronto Faculty of Law)
      Global Professional Master of Laws (GPLLM): Specializing in Business Law

IV. Public Sphere Proposals

Nisha Agarwal (New York Lawyers for the Public Interest); Jocelyn Simonson (Bronx Defenders, Inc.); Benjamin Hoffman (Harvard Law School ’11); Toby Merrill (Harvard Law School ’11)
      Bridging Theory and Practice in the Education of Future Public Interest Lawyers

Doug Ferguson (University of Western Ontario)
      Canadian Clinical Legal Education Conference and Founding Meeting of the Canadian Association for Clinical Legal Education

Dennis Greene (University of Dayton School of Law)
      “The Legal Bridges Project”

Innocent Enga Kameni (University of Pretoria)
     Partnering Universities and Local Lawyers to Engage in Public Interest Lawyering: The Case of the African Legal Support Facility

Alexa Shabecoff (Harvard Law School) and Earl Phalen (Reach Out and Read)
      Public Service Venture Fund
 

*Only bold names are registered for the conference and will present proposals on behalf of co-authors.

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