Leading educators and innovators from North Carolina and beyond visited downtown Greensboro on May 12, 2017, for a program focused on improving American legal education.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law hosted a dozen educators, lawyers, and entrepreneurs this month for a daylong workshop aimed at generating new research ideas for evaluating innovations in legal education.
Led by , and Dawan Stanford, Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s director of design thinking, the May 12 program was organized by the law school’s Center for Engaged Learning in Law.
“Our workshop brought together a nationally known group of law professors, deans, entrepreneurs, and other professionals to explore how best to adapt legal education to promote better practitioners and well-rounded citizens,” Friedland said.
Invited participants in “Designing an Ideal Legal Education” were:
- Sophie Sparrow, professor, University of New Hampshire, and coauthor of the book “What the Best Law Teachers Do”
- Olympia Duhart, professor, Nova Southeastern University, former president of the
- Dustin Benham, professor, Texas Tech University
- Susan Kuo, professor, University of South Carolina, profiled in “What the Best Law Teachers Do”
- Kami Chavis, professor, Wake Forest University
- Keith Sipe, CEO, Carolina Academic Press
- Alan Boyette, senior vice provost, UNC-Greensboro
- Dr. David Gutterman, president, LeBauer Health
- Jed Simmons, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill entrepreneur in residence
- Ellen Gregg, partner, Womble Carlyle, member of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Board of Advisors
- Dawan Stanford, director of design thinking, Â鶹ÊÓƵ
- Enrique Armijo, associate dean, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law
The workshop is the latest Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law initiative aimed at measuring the impact of experiential learning in American legal education. Last fall the law school received a grant from The Access Group Center for Research & Policy Analysis to evalute its new curriculum, the results of which will be shared broadly with legal educators across the nation.
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