Law professor Douglas Berman of Ohio State University has recently raised some fascinating questions and prospects in his 8/10/05 posting on Prawsblawg (with a series of related links therein), about introducing blogs as part of his curriculum. He has already successfully introduced his Sentencing Law and Policy blog* in a number of innovative ways into his course on sentencing and a seminar on the US Supreme Court's Blakely v. Washington decision. He also mentions that he will be listing this blog and two others as optional reading for students. He asks the blogs readers (other law professors) for their "thoughts and experiences about blogs as a teaching medium?" Highly recommended reading if you have an opportunity to click through and read this post in its entirety.
While I have never been a law school professor, I certainly was a law student once and, more recently, I wrote and taught an extensive syllabus of continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses for eight years on a full range of law and technology topics and skills. During that time, when blogs had not yet fully come into virtual vogue, I found that the lawyers attending my classes greatly appreciated the list of live links I e-mailed afterwards for all of the sites we explored during the course of these CLE offerings. They were online practice-specific resources that could immediately be put into practice use. In retrospect, if I was still teaching at this point there is no question that I would set up blog with these sites and other additional resources. Furthermore, I could easily see using a series of blogs to update the course materials on an ongoing basis. (more...)
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