Steven Arrigg Koh (Boston University School of Law) has published ““How Do I Design My Law Course?”: A Quick Guide for New Professors” at the NULR Online portion of the Northwestern University Law Review.
The abstract:
How do professors start teaching law? This question is a particular challenge for new law professors, who often lack resources for course design. Written from the perspective of a recently tenured law professor, this Essay offers four major categories of decisions: semester structure, classroom, final exam, and “professorial personality.” It argues that, for each decision, reasonable minds can differ. This Essay also provides some personal reflections on the decision-making to illustrate how one professor might weigh various considerations in course design. A final Appendix is a checklist for new professors.
This is timeless advice, almost literally, in the sense both its framing and its recommendations illustrate as well as any text I have seen in ages how constant and consistent “standard” law teaching has been over the last several decades.
