Describes in detail the development of a course at the Syracuse University College of Law titled General Counsel Applied Learning Course. Its aim is to meet the need of corporate America for new lawyers versed in the functions, techniques, and legal environment of in-house counsel. (EV)

Describes a course concerning the judicial profession and its five principal areas of discussion: (1) the selection of adjudicators, (2) their independence institutionally and individually, (3) their conduct in their capacity as adjudicators both on and off the bench, (4) their nonadjudicative responsibilities, and (5) the sanctions at hand to…

Describes the successes and failures of a course designed and taught by 3 women law students at UCLA. (HS)

Based on a study undertaken pursuant to a grant from the Ford Foundation. (IR)

Proposed legal research course includes; motivating first-year students; teaching to small classes; involving entire faculty; increasing credit and class hours; and assigning written exercises. (PG)

Describes a model for a law school class in factual analysis and case evaluation. The class does not follow the contemporary law school model dealing with the law and rules of evidence, but rather explores the science and philosophy of evidence, thereby exposing students to the mechanics of judicial reasoning about facts. (EV)

Describes the successful use of six simulated games in a commercial law class of 84 students and discusses teacher and student evaluation of their effectiveness. The six games, three with a legislative setting and three with a court setting, are included. (JT)

Asserts that the inexorable shift to transnational and global legal practice demands a comparable shift in methods of teaching comparative law to move it beyond its current American common law/European civil law myopia. Proposes an introductory course, Law in Comparative Cultures, which exposes students to a panoply of international legal systems.…

Describes a course taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. Content was divided into four segments: an introduction to the literature and a brief history of its development, court procedures, marriage and family law, and commercial law. Origins of the course and problems, especially that of comparing two legal systems…

A course in the legal aspects of noise pollution, cross-listed for students in Columbia University's Law and Engineering Schools, is described. Although noise is used as the major source of environmental pollution in this course, the principles and methodology discussed apply to other forms of environmental law. (MLW)

Descriptions by three law professors of approaches they have developed to integrate the topic of compensation or no-fault systems into their basic torts course. (JT)

Contains an annotated outline intended to assist law professors who may wish to incorporate international material in their regular conflicts courses as a summary lecture, a full semester course in private international law, or interwoven with the pertinent section on American law. (JT)

Describes each unit of a course required for first-year law students which seeks to develop legal skills in case analysis and synthesis, research and writing, oral presentation, client interviewing, pleading, fact investigation, counseling, pre-trial discovery, and negotiation. Includes explanation of a clinical unit utilizing a simulated consumer…

Proposes that a course in legal interviewing, negotiation, and counseling should be offered in all law schools, reports a 1973 survey showing that 52 percent do not offer such courses, and describes a recommended course in a course outline with brief explanation of teaching techniques and course objectives. (JT)

The course, "Roles and Relations in Legal Practice," is an attempt to commence students' professional training in a manner that does not depend on external clients, in which the volume and content of work can be effectively regulated, and which can be introduced into the earliest phases of the curriculum to prepare students for clinic work. (LBH)