Leading educators and innovators from North Carolina and beyond visited downtown Greensboro on May 12, 2017, for a program focused on improving American legal education.
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law hosted a dozen educators, lawyers, and entrepreneurs this month for a daylong workshop aimed at generating new research ideas for evaluating innovations in legal education.
Led by , and Dawan Stanford, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s director of design thinking, the May 12 program was organized by the law school’s Center for Engaged Learning in Law.
“Our workshop brought together a nationally known group of law professors, deans, entrepreneurs, and other professionals to explore how best to adapt legal education to promote better practitioners and well-rounded citizens,” Friedland said.
Invited participants in “Designing an Ideal Legal Education” were:
- Sophie Sparrow, professor, University of New Hampshire, and coauthor of the book “What the Best Law Teachers Do”
- Olympia Duhart, professor, Nova Southeastern University, former president of the
- Dustin Benham, professor, Texas Tech University
- Susan Kuo, professor, University of South Carolina, profiled in “What the Best Law Teachers Do”
- Kami Chavis, professor, Wake Forest University
- Keith Sipe, CEO, Carolina Academic Press
- Alan Boyette, senior vice provost, UNC-Greensboro
- Dr. David Gutterman, president, LeBauer Health
- Jed Simmons, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill entrepreneur in residence
- Ellen Gregg, partner, Womble Carlyle, member of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Board of Advisors
- Dawan Stanford, director of design thinking, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ
- Enrique Armijo, associate dean, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law
The workshop is the latest ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law initiative aimed at measuring the impact of experiential learning in American legal education. Last fall the law school received a grant from The Access Group Center for Research & Policy Analysis to evalute its new curriculum, the results of which will be shared broadly with legal educators across the nation.
About ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law:
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ School of Law in Greensboro, North Carolina, is the preeminent school for engaged and experiential education in law. It integrates traditional classroom instruction with highly experiential full-time residencies-in-practice in a logically sequenced program of transformational professional preparation. ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law’s groundbreaking approach is accomplished in 2.5 years, which provides distinctive value by lowering tuition and permitting graduates early entry into their professional careers.
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