DVVP02 Teaching Law Students With Experiential Education Methods

Faculty of Law
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
James Moliterno (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Contact Person: doc. JUDr. Jiří Valdhans, Ph.D.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
This would be a one-week course designed for law faculty interested in using experiential education methods,
primarily to teach lawyer skills but also substantive law subjects.
The course would be designed to do the following:
• expose the participants to the historical and theoretical background of legal education teaching methods;
• demonstrate teaching methods and course design features for experiential education;
• involve the participants in presenting an experiential education class session;
• enable participants to use experiential education methods in their courses
Syllabus
  • Tentative Schedule
  • Monday, March 8
  • . 3:00 pm. Lecture on history of teaching methods in legal education
  • . 3:45 First demonstration of experiential education classroom method (ethics)
  • . 4:30 break
  • . 4:45 Second demonstration of experiential education classroom method (skills)
  • . 5:30 Assignment of participants to roles in the week’s simulation; Overview of week’s simulation; Interview “clients”
  • Evening
  • . Study distributed legal material regarding client problem
  • Tuesday, March 9
  • . 3:00 Debrief client interviewing activity
  • . 3:45 Legal analysis of client’s problem
  • . 4:30 Break
  • . 4:45 Producing a legal memorandum; Producing a client letter
  • Evening
  • . 1. . Work-time to produce writings
  • Wednesday, March 10
  • . 3:00 Counseling clients
  • . 3:45 Debrief client counseling sessions
  • . 4:30 Break
  • . 4:45 Negotiation classroom teaching demonstration; Negotiation preparation time
  • . 5:30 Negotiation sessions
  • . 6:15 Debrief negotiation sessions
  • Evening
  • . Small group meetings to plan teaching presentations
  • Thursday, March 11
  • . 3:00 Drafting simple contract documents
  • . 3:45 Draft and agree to central terms from negotiation
  • . 4:30 Break
  • . 4:45 Third demonstration of experiential education classroom method
  • . 5:30 Small groups prepare teaching presentations
  • Evening
  • . Group activity, dinner, law-related film, . . .
  • Friday, March 12
  • . 3-7 Teaching Presentations
  • Evening
  • Closing social time
  • .
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
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