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Teaching Showcase Showdown

You're invited to the Teaching Showcase Showdown on Friday, January 27th! No registration fee--just come ready to share, learn, and generate new ideas for teaching legal research at law schools and law firms. Learn new ideas from our panel of experts and show off your best teaching techniques during the informal 5-minute lightning talks!

RSVP and sign up for a lightning talk here.

Schedule

8:30am Breakfast and Networking

9:00am Welcome

9:10am Panel A discussion between:

Raquel Ortiz, Assistant Dean for Library and Information Services of the Roger Williams Law Library

Joan Shear, Legal Information Librarian & Lecturer in Law at the Boston College Law Library

Anne Stemlar, Director of Research and Library Services at Goodwin Procter LLP

Kathy Vinson, Director of the Legal Practice Skills Program at Suffolk University Law School

10:30am Break

10:45am Roundtable Sessions

1. Do you offer specialized legal research classes?

2. How do you evaluate effective training?

3. Using technology in the classroom

4. Tips, tricks and tools in teaching

5. Risky and dangerous ideas in law libraries

11:30am Break

11:45am Lightning Talks

1. Stefanie Weigmann - BU

2. Eric Gilson - Rutgers

3. Karin Johnsrud - Fordham

4. Kimberly Hall - Harvard

5. Jason Eiseman - Yale

6. Jennifer Wertkin - Columbia

7. Beth Holmes - Partridge, Snow and Hahn

12:30pm Dutch Treat Lunches and Tours

Directions

The Showcase will take place in Wasserstein Hall Room 2019 West B, the Law School's new building on the corner of Mass and Everett. A larger map is available here.

Driving direction are available here. If you are driving in you can sign up for parking here as a visitor. You will want to select the 10 Everett St garage. Parking is $13. If Everett St is full then your next best bet is 52 Oxford St. The Everett St garage is in the same building as the Wasserstein center. The Oxford St. garage is about a 5-7 minute walk from the Wasserstein center. If you plan on driving in, the online form requests that you fill out the department and department code and you should have received this information by email, but if you have not, please email Carli Spina at cspina@law.harvard.edu.

Accommodations

If you would like to stay overnight in Cambridge, we have arranged for a group rate at the Sheraton Commander. This rate will be available until January 6, 2012 on a first-come, first-served basis.

Questions?

Call 617-495-8825 or email George Taoultsides at gtaoultsides@law.harvard.edu.

Suggested Readings

Have you read interesting books or articles on legal teaching? Do you draw your techniques from other sources? Add citations or links below for items you think other participants might find interesting.