Steven Arrigg Koh (Boston University; Google Scholar), “How Do I Design My New Law Course?”: 

How should a professor design a new law course? This question is a particular challenge for new law professors, who lack resources for course design. While some scholarship exists on specific law courses and pedagogy, trans-substantive course design literature is comparatively rare. This Essay closes this gap by providing a framework: the four major categories of decisions regard the semester structure, classroom, final exam, plus "professorial personality." It argues that, for each decision, reasonable minds can differ. 

This Essay also provides some personal reflections on the decisionmaking to illustrate how one professor might weigh various considerations in course design.

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