Teaching Evaluations
Different jurisdictions and—within different jurisdictions—different institutions have varying arrangements regarding teaching evaluations (“TEs”). Some law schools do not have TEs at all, some do TEs only for some courses, others have TEs across all cour
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Lutz-Christian Wolff
The Art of Law Teaching 123
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Lutz-Christian Wolff
The Art of Law Teaching
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Lutz-Christian Wolff Faculty of Law The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
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I think teaching law is rather like herding sheep. You run around behind the students and bark at their heels, and head off the ones that start for the hilltops, and after a while, if you create enough commotion, they move down the valley and arrive at a destination without ever knowing how they got there. Of course … whether it’s the right destination is another question, and there is always somebody who wants to argue about that. William L. Prosser, Lighthouse No Good, 1 Journal of Legal Education (1948), pp. 257–267 (264–265)
Preface
I have been a law teacher and I have practiced law in different jurisdictions for almost three decades. I have written this book because my law teaching experience may be worth sharing with others. I wanted to tell my stories hoping to be able to transfer some knowledge and skills, but also to provoke some discussion. My experiences, lessons and conclusions may not fit everywhere. But hopefully some of my thoughts can lead to reflection on how law is and should be taught and ultimately to improvements for the ben
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