LSI blog featured in the Wall Street Journal

They’re too modest over there to toot (or tout) their own horn, but the WSJ’s Blog Watch on November 27 listed Law School Innovation among the blogs to, er, watch:
This new blog, launched in late October, is the brainchild of Ohio State University law professor Douglas A. Berman and, as its name suggests, is devoted […]

(un)Common Knowledge forum : panelists finalized

We’ve finalized the panel for (un)Common Knowledge and invite anyone interested in professional education/development and the impact of technology on learning to attend. I’ll be posting information on attending via Webcast or Second Life shortly.
Official event poster

Event announcement: forum on legal education

I’m pleased to announce that the Berkman Center will be hosting a forum to discuss the work we’re doing on emerging modes of legal learning and teaching. Below is the current official description. I’ll update as we finalize participants.

(un)Common Knowledge:
Legal education in a networked world
Thursday, December 7
6:30-8:00pm
Austin West
Harvard Law School
Law schools don’t just educate new […]

Chatting a podcast in Second Life

Recently in CyberOne we asked each student to podcast an “empathetic argument” for their projects. Rebecca came up with the ingenous idea that we should listen to the podcasts in Second Life as a group so we could identify in what ways each podcast succeeded at this rhetorical form.

cross-post: Seeking your input on a survey of new attorneys

Posted over at Law School Innovation:

LexisNexis has offered to help us (the Berkman Center’s research initiative) learn more about how prepared new lawyers are for today’s legal work world by conducting a survey of recent graduates. I ask anyone with an interest in the topic to submit your suggestions for what this survey should entail. […]

I’m guest-blogging on Law School Innovation

Prof. Doug Berman has graciously allowed me to write a few posts for the new blog, Law School Innovation. I’ve introduced myself and have made my first request for participation on our study — see my next post.

How can technology transform legal education?

HLS Professor and Director of the Berkman Center John Palfrey has published an op-ed in the National Law Journal, The law school curriculum: What is technology’s role? that reflects on the role that technology can — or should — play in legal education. He touches on some of the major themes of our research so […]

Berkman Center studying the future of legal education

In October, I started a fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society (gracious hosts of this blog) to study the future of legal education given the changes and opportunities that technology presents. John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Center, writes about the project:
Over the course of this fall, we’re working with […]

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