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Remote/Hybrid Teaching: News, Best Practices & Articles

News & Insights:

AccessLex Institute, Academic and Bar Success
AccessLex Institute is a non-profit organization that conducts and commissions research to provide "the latest data and evidence on the most critical issues facing legal education today." Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is an AccessLex Institute member law school.
Includes news such as: AccessLex Institute's New JDEdge Program Aims to Sharpen Skills of Incoming Law Students (Apr. 11, 2023). Describes the JDEdge summer program ("webinars, video lectures, and interactive online lessons") designed for incoming 1Ls. This program focuses on: "[C]ase reading and briefing, writing for law school exams and exam preparation, critical reflection, and professional expectations," On July 1, 2023, JDEdge will be offered for free to AccessLex member law schools and students at these schools.
Association of American Law Schools, Legal Education News
BLS is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.
Includes news such as: Shaun Jamison & Hannah Catt, Law Schools Can Ease the Drought in Rural ‘Legal Deserts’ (Apr. 25, 2023). These authors assert: "Universities should also consider offering law school online so that prospective attorneys can continue to live and serve in their communities during law school. Many who leave rural areas to go to school do not end up moving back." (Full text available in Bloomberg Law > Popular Links: Bloomberg Law News. A BLS faculty member can self-register for a Bloomberg Law account at: https://profile.bloombergindustry.com/bloomberglaw-activate No access code is required.)
Association of American Law Schools, Remote Instruction
Includes news about online and hybrid learning developments in American law schools and summaries of recent law student surveys focusing on online learning. Under heading: "Concord Law School at Purdue University Global seeks bar exam eligibility for their online school," links to news article: Karen Sloan, Online law school seeks bar exam eligibility in Indiana, Reuters (Mar. 27, 2023).
Includes news on diversity and inclusion. Under heading: "Law firm launches free online course to help first-generation and diverse law students," links to news article: Winston & Strawn, "Winston & Strawn Launches Free, Online Course to Help First-Generation and Diverse Law Students Succeed in Law School ," Cision PR Newswire (Oct. 19, 2022).
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Teaching & Learning
The Chronicle focuses on higher education (colleges and universities) and provides news/insights.
Tip: Click magnifying glass on The Chronicle's home page > search by keywords, such as: "remote instruction" Search results include filter: Tag > under Tag, click: See All [tags] to filter search results by tag: Teaching & Learning.
Note to BLS faculty: If you cannot access a desired article, please contact askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu for assistance.
Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Law Teaching Blog
The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning describes itself as "a clearinghouse for ideas to improve the quality of education in law school" and supports "research and the development of materials to enhance teaching and learning in law school."
PrawfsBlawg posts in category: Remote & Physically Distanced Teaching

Best Practices & Guides:

AccessLex Institute & Gallup, Law School in a Pandemic, Year 2: Moving from Emergency Remote Teaching to Emerging Best Practices in Distance Legal Education (May 2022)
Excerpt from abstract: "2022 follow-up study on law students’ perceptions of online J.D. classes during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Justin Beauchamp, Emily Schwartz & Elizabeth Davidson Pisacreta, Seven Practices for Building Community and Student Belonging Virtually (May 13, 2021)
Issue brief published at Ithaka S+R.
CALI (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction), tab:Resources > General Resources for Online Teaching
CALI is a "non-profit consortium of mostly US law schools that conducts applied research and development in the area of computer-mediated legal education."
Includes links to Zoom tutorials, guides to/suggestions for teaching online, articles and videos. On CALI's home page, there are links to videos from the June 2020 course: Preparing for the Future of Legal Education - Online Teaching Tips & Techniques and a link to a recording of the webinar: Delivering Better Videos for Spring 2021 Law School Courses.

Conference: CALIcon 2023 (June 15-16, 2023) included programs such as Law School 3.0: Shifting the Paradigm of Student Engagement (described how Concord Law School used technology "to engage and motivate students to actively participate not only in their courses but also in the larger law school community"); and Meeting in the Middle: Creating Strong IT Partnerships to Develop Successful Technology Initiatives in Law Schools. This annual conference offers both in-person and virtual attendance options.

Harvard University, Teach Remotely > tab: Best Practices
Tab "Best Practices" provides: Pedagogical Best Practices: Residential, Blended, and Online. Excerpt from description: "[P}rovides principles and tips to help you teach, regardless of whether your class is fully in person, fully online, or a little bit of both."
Legal Writing Institute, Materials for Teaching Online (compiled by Tracy Norton at Touro Law)
Members of the LWI community share material categorized as: Guidelines and Tips for Professors; Guidelines and Tips for Students; Tips for Online Teaching from LRWPROF-L; and Demos and Videos.
Working Group on Distance Education in Legal Education, Distance Learning in Legal Education: Design, Delivery and Recommended Practices (2017)
Accessible through CALI's eLangdell Bookstore. Excerpt from description: "This paper was written as a collaborative project by the Working Group on Distance Education in Legal Education. Contributors included law faculty, administrators, instructional designers, and law school librarians." One needs to enter: name, email and law school to download this source.

Scholarly Legal Articles:

Tip: Below are sources one can search by terms such as: remote/online learning/instruction law/legal education/teaching

bepress Legal Repository

Legal Education Commons > top right of screen includes feature: Search this Commons.

SSRN eLibrary & Social Sciences Education eJournal

Symposium: Journal of Legal Education Symposium (Friday, Oct. 6, 2023): Continuing Legal Education and the Professional Education of U.S. Lawyers. Excerpt from description: Areas to examine can include: "adult learning and engaging pedagogy — i.e., best practices in delivering legal education outside the law school classroom; innovation and experimentation in the delivery of CLE, including best practices for developing and delivering online education in synchronous versus asynchronous formats."

Journal of Legal Education, Issues 2 & 3 (Winter & Spring 2021)
Links to many articles about online learning and teaching published in two issues of Journal of Legal Education during 2021. Source: BLS subscription database: HeinOnline. Remote access to HeinOnline requires implementation of the BLS proxy server instructions.
Lisa Bliss, Susan L. Brooks & Chaumtoli Huq, Creating Online Education Spaces to Support Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Wellbeing, 14(2) John Marshall L.J. 1 (2021)
Anastasia M. Boles, Pivoting Under Pressure: Cultural Proficiency, Race, and Reforms, 2022 Utah L. Rev. 871 (2022)
Sarah R. Boonin & Luz E. Herrera, From Pandemic to Pedagogy: Teaching the Technology of Lawyering in Law Clinics, 68 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 109 (2022)
Andrele Brutus St. Val, Survey Says--How to Engage Law Students in the Online Learning Environment, J. Legal Educ. (2022)
Tracy G. Crump, Providing Virtual Legal Writing Support to Law Students Beyond the Classroom, 34(1) The Second Draft 1 (Apr. 2021)
Marni Goldstein Caputo & Kathleen Luz, A Book Club with No Books: Using Podcasts Movies, and Documentaries to Increase Transfer of Learning, Incorporate Social Justice Themes, Create Community, and Bolster Traditional and Character-Based Legal Skills duri
Ulysses Jaen & Rebekah Miller, The Future of Legal Education: Game-Changing ABA-Approved Online Law Schools Make Becoming a Lawyer Easier and More Affordable, 20(1) Ave Maria L. Rev. 66 (2022)
Agnieszka McPeak, Adaptable Design: Building Multi-Modal Content for Flexible Law School Teaching, 65 St. Louis U. L.J. (2021)
David Sandomierski & Stephanie Ben-Ishai, Modular Legal Learning: Revitalizing the Law Classroom, 45(2) Dalhousie L.J. 591 (2022)

BLS COVID-19 Information

BLS COVID-19 Information

Current Awareness: COVID-19

ABA Journal: COVID-19 Articles
Bloomberg Law: In Focus: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Law.com: COVID-19
Remote access requires use of the BLS proxy server. ALM publications also are available in Lexis.
Law360: Health
Remote access requires use of the BLS proxy server. Law360 news articles and expert analysis also is available in Lexis.

CRS Document: Student Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Rebecca R. Skinner, Student Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Dec. 5, 2022)

Tips: Finding Articles

BLS faculty who plan to work off campus and do not live in a BLS residence: implement the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser, then close/reopen that browser.

This will allow you to retrieve more full text articles when searching BLS Library's OneSearch discovery platform or Google Scholar.
- If you successfully implement the BLS proxy instructions, a prompt will appear requesting your BLS username/password.
Need help implementing the BLS proxy instructions? Email: library.lab@brooklaw.edu
Need help finding articles? Email: askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu

BLS faculty who search Google Scholar can request unavailable articles through BLS Library's interlibrary loan form/service.

Tip: Before making an interlibrary loan request, faculty might wish to access Find a Source > enter a journal's title > click: Full Text Access to view BLS Library's available journal holdings.

When Was This Guide Last Updated?

This LibGuide was last substantively updated:

On: Nov. 8, 2023

At: 3:34 PM

By: Jean Davis