{"id":148,"date":"2009-09-23T04:40:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T10:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/?p=148"},"modified":"2009-09-23T11:04:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:04:33","slug":"more-on-the-legal-education-at-the-crossroads-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2009\/09\/23\/more-on-the-legal-education-at-the-crossroads-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Legal Education at the Crossroads conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conference was weighted toward clinical and skills faculty in terms of the composition of the panels and the audience.\u00a0 This is not meant as a criticism.\u00a0 My take is that skills faculty have long been engaged in a richer and more meaningful assessment of students than have doctrinal faculty.\u00a0 One way to characterize the increased emphasis on assessment in law school is that the clinicians (and the MacCrate and Carnegie reports) are ascendant.\u00a0 So, it makes some sense that many presentations would give examples of assessment in a skills setting.\u00a0 But if the mission is to change the practices of doctrinal faculty, more of them need to be at conferences like this and more of them need to be present to answer the Big Question, which is taken up in my next post.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Rensberger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conference was weighted toward clinical and skills faculty in terms of the composition of the panels and the audience.\u00a0 This is not meant as a criticism.\u00a0 My take is that skills faculty have long been engaged in a richer and more meaningful assessment of students than have doctrinal faculty.\u00a0 One way to characterize the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36,26,12,21,15,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aba","category-assessment","category-commentary","category-conferences","category-law-professors","category-law-schools","category-student-learning","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}