Week 7: Mid-Term Exams Required Some Flexibility on My Part

Best-Laid Plans  of Mice and Men . . . . This week, I had planned to take students through a second CREAC exercise to get them ready for the...

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Week 6: Finally Writing a CREAC

Conclusion, Rule, Explanation, Application, and Conclusion I've talked about it for three weeks.  CREAC this and CREAC that.  Now, it...

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Week 5: The Professor Learns Some Lessons

Working Harder to Create Student Engagement Qatar University has a very rigorous faculty evaluation program.  Once a year, we must upload a ...

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Week 5: The Client Interview

Getting Students to Think Like Baby Lawyers In lab this week, students conducted an interview of our client.  As I noted in my last posting ...

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Week 4: The Fun Begins

Meeting with the "Partner" This week I began distributing to students legal memos on "firm" letterhead. The firm name is...

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Week 3: Learning to Brief a Case

The Week of Chester, the Parrot Students are still enrolling in the course. So, we continue to provide background information as everyone c...

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