Many thanks to Dan, Ethan and the rest of the Prawfsblawg gang for inviting me to return for another visit. I teach criminal law, criminal procedure and constitutional law at Gonzaga Law School in Mighty Spokane, Washington … where I’ll be spending my summer this year since I’m trying something new this year — summer school!
In particular, I’m teaching in our school’s early start summer program for a group of our incoming 2007 1L students. Some of these students are asked to participate in the program as a condition to admission, but some simply want to get an early start on their legal studies. Now that I’ve finished grading my Spring exams, I’ve begun to think about how I should approach an early start course, where I’ll teach criminal law in about five weeks, four days a week, two hours a day, to a group of about 40 students who will undertake their first law school class outside of the usual Fall crash-course environment of 1L studies. The early start program does not include an LRW course. Students are offered a basic legal analysis course taught by another faculty member, but only the students asked to participate in the early start program are required to take this course.
I wondered whether any readers who have taught or taken an early start 1L course have suggestions on whether and how I might want to adjust my teaching goals or strategies for this course?
Posted by Brooks Holland on June 1, 2007 at 12:53 PM