Teaching Lawyering Skills : An Integrated Approach / Stefan H. Krieger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krieger, Stefan H., 1946- author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar guides to teaching.

Elgar Guides to Teaching Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2024]

Summary:

Foregrounding the importance of schemata in learning, Teaching Lawyering Skills presents an integrated approach to the overall pedagogical theory of law. Stefan Krieger challenges the traditional stark dichotomy between doctrinal analysis and practice skills, arguing that skills education requires development of strategic reasoning in practice.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Tables

Acknowledgements

PART I EXPERIENTIAL LEGAL EDUCATION

1. A pedagogical theory of lawyering skills education

2. Lawyering skills as a component of legal education

3. Outcome assessment of lawyering skills

PART II AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN FACT ANALYSIS, INVESTIGATION, AND PRESENTATION

Introduction to Part II

SECTION 1: TEACHING FRAMEWORKS FOR FACT ANALYSIS

4. Introduction to thinking about facts (week 1)

5. Legal elements model for analyzing facts (week 2)

6. Chronology model for analyzing facts/role of perception, schemata, and memory in fact analysis (week 3)

7. Storytelling model for analyzing facts (week 4)

8. Role of inferences in analysis of facts (week 5)

SECTION 2: TEACHING FACT INVESTIGATION

Introduction to Section 2

9. Fact investigation planning (week 6)

10. Introduction to questioning/listening/responding: interviewing of a neutral witness (week 7)

11. Client interviewing in a dispute setting (week 8)

12. Client interviewing in a transactional setting (week 9)

13. Questioning, listening, and responding in a deposition (week 10)

14. Questioning, listening, and responding in informational bargaining (week 11)

SECTION 3: TEACHING PRESENTATION OF FACTS

Introduction to Section 3

15. Presentation of facts in direct examination (week 12)

16. Presentation of facts in cross-examination (week 13)

PART III AN ADVANCED COURSE IN FACT ANALYSIS: THE STORYBOARDING MODEL FOR TEACHING LAWYERING SKILLS

17. The process of storyboarding

18. Exercises using the storyboarding method

Appendix

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Krieger, Stefan H. Teaching Lawyering Skills

ISBN:

9781800888869