Michael Hunter Schwartz
Publications
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Articles in Law Reviews
"Humanizing Legal Education: An Introduction to a Symposium Whose Time Came," 47 Washburn Law Journal 235 (2008). [88 KB PDF]
"Work Smart: Excel in Law School by Becoming an Expert Learner," 13:1 CLEO Edge Magazine 39 (Winter/Spring 2008).
"Teaching Law Students to be Self-Regulated Learners," 2003 Mich. State Det. C.L. L. Rev. 447 (Summer 2003). [2.8 MB PDF]
"Teaching Law by Design: How Learning Theory and Instructional Design Can Inform and Reform Law Teaching," 38 San Diego L. Rev. 347 (2001). [5.7 MB PDF]
"Power Outage: Amplifying the Analysis of Power in Legal Relations (With Special Application to Unconscionability and Arbitration)," 33 Willamette L. Rev. 67 (1997).
"From Star to Supernova to Dark, Cold Neutron Star: The Early Life, The Explosion and the Collapse of Arbitration," 22 Wayne State. U. L. Rev. 1 (1994).
Books
Remedies: Problems, Cases & Materials (co-authored with Carole Buckner and Sophie Sparrow) ("Context and Practice Casebooks Series;" Professor Schwartz designed the series and is series editor) (Carolina Academic Press) (forthcoming Spring 2010).
Contracts: Problems, Cases & Materials (Carolina Academic Press) (forthcoming Fall 2009).
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Teaching Law By Design: Engaging Students From the Syllabus to the Final Exam (co-authored with Sophie Sparrow and Gerry Hess) (Carolina Academic Press) (forthcoming spring 2009).
What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press) (forthcoming 2011) (a follow-up book to Ken Bain's What the Best College Teachers Do).
Expert Learning for Law Students. 2nd edition. (Carolina Academic Press, 2008).
Expert Learning for Law Students Workbook. 2nd edition. (Carolina Academic Press, 2008).
Pass the Bar! Teacher's Manual (Carolina Academic Press, 2006).
Pass the Bar! (Carolina Academic Press, 2006).
Expert Learning for Law Students (Carolina Academic Press, 2005). (This title has been adopted by CLEO (Council on Legal Education Opportunity) for their Summer Institute and "Attitude is Essential" programs. CLEO is a non-profit project of the American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education.)
Expert Learning for Law Students Workbook (Carolina Academic Press, 2005).
Expert Learning for Law Students: 2005 Teacher's Manual and Appendices (Carolina Academic Press, 2005).
Expert Learning for Law Students (Western State University College of Law, 2003).
Expert Learning for Law Students Workbook (Western State University College of Law, 2003).
Book Chapters and Book Contributions
Contributing Author, Best Practices for Legal Education. Roy Stuckey and Others (Clinical Legal Education Association, 2007) (902 KB PDF; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Essays and Other Shorter Works
"Using Course Webpages to Fill Gaps in Traditional Law School Instruction," Jurist: Lessons from the Web (March 2003).
"Expert Learning and Equity Andragogy: Integrating Dynamic Groups into First-Year Courses to Develop Law Students' Self-Regulated Learning Skills," Materials for Eleventh Annual Summer Conference of the Institute for Law School Teaching (Gonzaga University) (co-authored with Professor Carole Buckner) (Summer 2004).
"Performing Information-Processing and Prerequisite Analyses: Using Instructional Design Principles to Articulate Instructional Objectives," Materials for Eighth Annual Summer Conference of the Institute for Law School Teaching (Gonzaga University) (Summer 2001).
"Tenure Track Status for Academic Support Professionals," The Learning Curve (Spring 2005).
Other Publications
Created Podcast and Supporting Materials, "Expert learning for Law Students," LSAC Academic Assistance Website (forthcoming Spring 2009)
Contributing Author, Center for Engaged Learning in the Law Blog (2008- ).
Contributing Author, Best Practices in Legal Education Blog (2008- ).
"Towards a Vision of a Humanized Classroom: A Few Ideas for Improving Students' Experience in Large, Doctrinal Classes," Conference Materials for "Balance in Legal Education: One Year Later," 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools (January 2007).
"New Ideas in Old Bottles: Integrating Bar Pass Instruction in Upper-Division Bar Tested Courses," Conference Materials for "Integrating Academic Support Across the Curriculum," 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools (January 2007).
"Best Practices For Integrating Academic Support Into The First-Year Curriculum, Influencing Doctrinal Faculty, And Designing Introductory Programs," Conference Materials for Best Practices in Academic Support Conference (November 2006).
Presentations
Conducted All-Day Workshop, "Ex-L in Law School Training," Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Southern Illinois University School of Law, Carbondale, Illinois, June 9, 2009.
Conducted All-Day Workshop, "Ex-L in Law School Training," Council on Legal Education Opportunity, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 8, 2009.
Plenary speaker, "Raising the Curtain on Learning and Technology: Selecting the Right Technology to Accomplish Your Goals," 2009 LSAC Academic Assistance Training Workshop, St. Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, June 5, 2009.
Concurrent Presenter, "In-Class Instant Messaging: An Additional Tool for Engaging Your Students," 2009 LSAC Academic Assistance Training Workshop, St. Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, June 5, 2009.
Facilitated Half-Day Faculty Retreat on Curriculum Reform, University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, California, May 1, 2009.
Presenter, "Curriculum Reform: Impetuses and Models," Pace University School of Law, White Plains, New York, March 16, 2009.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, University of Miami College of Law, Coral Gables, Florida, March 6, 2009.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 9, 2009.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland, Feb. 6, 2009.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, Hoftsra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York, January 23, 2009.
Conducted All-Day Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Montgomery, Alabama, January 17, 2009.
Invited Presenter, "Educational Outcomes and Outcome Assessment," ABA Standards Review Committee, San Diego, California, January 9, 2009.
Moderator, "Unwrapping the Shroud of Secrecy: What Law Professors Can Learn from Bar Examiners," 2009 AALS Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, January 8, 2009.
Moderator and Presenter, "Educating Lawyers and Best Practices for Legal Education: A Mandate to Humanize the Law School Experience," 2009 AALS Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, January 8, 2009.
Presenter, "Teaching to the Entire Class: Innovative and Effective Instruction to Engage Every Student," 2009 AALS Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, January 7, 2009.
Conducted Teaching Development Workshop, University of North Carolina School of Law, December 8, 2008.
Invited Speaker, "What the Best Law Teachers Do," Boston College Law School, November 21, 2008.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Workshop, "Beyond Socratic Questioning and Cooperative Learning: Seven Additional Tools for Engaging Your Students," Gonzaga University School of Law, October 23, 2008.
Co-Presenter, "Improving Learning to Improve Bar Pass and Other Outcomes," American Bar Association Bar Exam Passage Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 2008.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Workshop, "Formative Assessment in Large, Doctrinal Courses," University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, October 14, 2008.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, Tulsa University School of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 26, 2008.
Plenary Presentation, "Teaching Techniques for Bar Pass," LSAC Bar Preparation Workshop, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, California, September 19, 2008.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Workshop, University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois, September 11, 2008.
Plenary Speaker and Moderator, "Institutional Process for Making It Happen," Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference: Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, University of Washington School of Law Seattle, Washington, September 7, 2008.
Moderator, "Whole Curriculum Projects: Reforming the Curriculum at Small, Limited Resource State Law Schools," Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference: Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, September 6, 2008.
Moderator, "First-Year Projects Integrating the Cognitive, Skills and Professional Formation Apprenticeships," Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference: Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, September 6, 2008.
Showcase Presenter, "Five Days, Three Apprenticeships, One Orientation: Towards a Model First Week Curriculum," Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference: Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, September 6, 2008.
Conducted Half-Day Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, California, August 25, 2008.
Conducted Half-Day Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, California, August 23, 2008.
Presenter, "The Faint Scent of Change: Legal Education at the Crossroads," Topeka Bar Association, Topeka, Kansas, August 8, 2008.
Panelist, "Law School Teaching Methods that Even Socrates Would Admire: How Law Schools Can Move Toward Meeting Best Practices in Legal Education," Southeastern Association of Law Schools, 61st Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida, July 29, 2008.
Presented (as part of a panel), "Bar Exam Prep Course Seeking Long Term Relationship: Legal Writing, Academic Support, Both, or Something Else?" 13th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 15, 2008.
Moderator and Teaching Methods Expert, "It's All In the Wind up, Swing, and Follow-through: Preparing Before Class, Learning While In Class, and Holding on to the Right Material After Class," 2008 LSAC Academic Assistance Workshop for New Academic Support Professionals, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (June 2008).
Presenter, "Getting in a Groove: Organizational Tools to Help Students Synthesize, Manage, and Retrieve Information," 2008 LSAC Academic Assistance Workshop for New Academic Support Professionals, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (June 2008).
Co-Presenter (with Professor Ruth Ann McKinney), "The ASP Commitment to Professional Excellence," 2008 LSAC Academic Assistance Workshop for New Academic Support Professionals, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (June 2008).
Consultant and Presenter, "Design Options for Academic Support Programs," Mercer University School of Law (May 14, 2008).
Conducted Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law (April 28, 2008).
Conducted Partner-Associate Training, Davis, Polk & Wardell (New York) (April 7, 2008).
Conducted Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, University of Tulsa College of Law (April 4, 2008).
Conducted Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (March 2008).
Conducted Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, University of La Verne College of Law (March 2008).
Moderator, "New Law Professors as Catalysts for Change," 2008 AALS Annual Meeting, New Law Professors Section (New York, New York) (January 2008).
Conducted Half-Day Faculty Development Workshop, Franklin Pierce Law Center (Concord, New Hampshire) (December 2007).
Plenary Speaker, "Maximizing Learning in a Multi-Generational Setting," 2007 Professional Development Institute (sponsored by ALI-ABA and NALP) (November 30, 2007).
Conference Workgroup Facilitator, "Legal Education at the Crossroads: Part 1" (invite-only conference aimed at legal eduaction reform), University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina (November 2-4, 2007).
Plenary Speaker, "Looking Back Over the Conference, Looking Forward to Legal Education Reform," Humanizing Legal Education Conference/Symposium, Washburn University School of Law (October 21, 2007).
Two-Day Faculty Teaching Development Program (visited classes, provided private feedback, led student focus groups and conducted an all-day faculty workshop on law school teaching and learning), Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law (September 2007).
Guest Speaker, "Ex-L in Law School," University of New Mexico School of Law (August 2007).
Orientation Presenter, "Law School Study Strategies, Exam Preparation and Exam Taking," University of Wyoming College of Law 2007 New Law Student Orientation (August 2007).
Plenary Speaker, "Maximizing Learning in a Multi-Generational Setting," Kansas Continuing Legal Education Provider Conference (August 10, 2007).
Panelist, "Responding to the Varied Learning Styles of Law Students," Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida (August 2, 2007).
"Ex-L in Law School Training," Council on Legal Education Opportunity Attitude is Essential Training, Atlanta, Georgia (July 13, 2007) and Los Angeles, California (July 27, 2007).
"Active Learning Teaching Methods," opening plenary session presentation at the 2007 LSAC Academic Assistance Conference, Miami, Florida (June 21, 2007).
"Six Active Learning Ideas for Adding New Modes to Your Teaching," Institute for Law Teaching's Summer Conference, Boston, Massachusetts (June 8, 2007).
"Ex-L in Law School Training," Council on Legal Education Opportunity Summer Institute, Columbia, Missouri (June 4, 2007) and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (June 5, 2007).
"Teaching and Learning Colloquium," presented to Marquette University Law School faculty (all-day event focused on a wide range of teaching techniques, on assessment of learning, evaluation of students and mechanisms for teaching law students to be expert, self-regulated learners) (March 22, 2007).
Invited Speaker, "The Clock is Ticking: Maximizing Your Limited Instructional Time with Students," and Invited Teaching Consultant, Wisconsin Law School (February 2007).
Selected Panelist, "Integrating Academic Support Across the Curriculum," 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools (January 2007).
Panelist, "Balance in Legal Education: One Year Later," 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools (January 2007).
Plenary Speaker, "Best Practices For Integrating Academic Support Into The First-Year Curriculum, Influencing Doctrinal Faculty, And Designing Introductory Programs," Best Practices in Academic Support Conference (November 2006).
"Best Practices in Assessment," Washburn University School of Law Adjunct Faculty Appreciation Lunch/Training Program (Fall 2006).
Keynote Speaker, "Maximizing Learning in a Multi-Generational Setting," New York Accredited CLE Provider Conference, Sponsored by the New York Continuing Legal Education Board (New York State Judicial Institute on the campus of Pace Law School) (4.7 MB PowerPoint; embedded videos require Windows Media Player)
Workshop Presenter, "The Clock is Ticking: Maximizing Your Limited Time with Students", AALS Mid-Year Conference on New Ideas for Law School Teachers: Teaching Intentionally (Summer 2006)
Colloquia Speaker (as part of the Charleston School of Law-Mercer University School of Law Colloquy Exchange Program), "Telling the Secrets of the 'A' Students: An Integrated Expert Learner Curriculum Designed to Teach Law Students to be Self-Regulated Learners," Mercer University School of Law (Spring 2006)
Consultant on Bar Pass and Teaching, John Marshall Law School (Chicago) (January 2006)
Consultant on Teaching and Presenter, "Best Practices for Teaching Doctrinal, Skills and Seminar Classes" and "The Clock is Ticking: Maximizing Your Limited Instructional Time with Students," Albany Law School (November 2006)
Conference Co-Presenter, "Administrative and Faculty Responses to Incorporating SoTL into the Core Institutional Mission," 2005 Conference, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (October 2005)
Invited Speaker, "The Application of Learning Theory and Instructional Design to Law School Teaching," and "Telling the Secrets of the 'A' Students: An Integrated Expert Learner Curriculum Designed to Teach Law Students to be Self-Regulated Learners," John Marshall Law School (Chicago) (May 2005)
Invited Speaker, "Telling the Secrets of the 'A' Students: An Integrated Expert Learner Curriculum Designed to Teach Law Students to be Self-Regulated Learners," Southern New England School of Law (May 2005)
Invited Speaker (with Professor Carole Buckner), "Using Dynamic Groups and Technology to Facilitate Expert Learning: Creating S.T.E.L.L.A.R.TM Students," Santa Clara University School of Law School (April 2005)
Invited Consultant/Speaker, "Telling the Secrets of the 'A' Students: An Integrated Expert Learner Curriculum Designed to Teach Law Students to be Self-Regulated Learners," Albany Law School (February 2005)
Workshop Presenter (with Professor Carole Buckner), "Expert Learning and Equity Andragogy: Integrating Dynamic Groups into First-Year Courses to Develop Law Students' Self-Regulated Learning Skills," Eleventh Annual Conference of the Institute for Law School Teaching (Gonzaga University) (Summer 2004)
Invited Consultant/Speaker, "The Application of Learning Theory and Instructional Design to Law School Teaching," and "Telling the Secrets of the 'A' Students: An Integrated Expert Learner Curriculum Designed to Teach Law Students to be Self-Regulated Learners," UDC Law School (April 2004)
Presenter, "Secrets of 'A' Students: An Integrated Expert Learner Curriculum Designed to Teach Students to be Self-Regulated Learners," Argosy University Academic Conference (October 2003) (conference attendees included professors, deans and other educational administrators at colleges throughout the country)
Invited Speaker, "The Application of Learning Theory and Instructional Design to Law School Teaching," and "Secrets of 'A' Students: An Integrated Expert Learner Curriculum Designed to Teach Students to be Self-Regulated Learners," John Marshall Law School in Atlanta (April 2003)
Invited Speaker, "Instructional Theory and Design for Course Webpages" and "Productive Uses of Course Webpages," Hastings College of the Law, Teaching with Technology Workshop (Fall 2002)
Presenter, "Instructional Theory and Design in Creating Course Webpages: The Western State Model," 2002 Conference for Law School Computing (Summer 2002)
Workshop Presenter, "Performing Information-Processing and Prerequisite Analyses: Using instructional Design Principles to Articulate Instructional Objectives," Eighth Annual Summer Conference of the Institute for Law School Teaching (Gonzaga University) (Summer 2001)
Main Speaker (along with Professor Greg Sergienko), "Tailoring Instructional Techniques to Instructional Objectives," ALWD Biennial Conference: Erasing Lines: Integrating the Law School Curriculum (Summer 2001)
Panelist, "Arbitrator Impartiality," University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Symposium on California Arbitration Reform (April 1997)
Co-Presenter, "Is Arbitration Too Arbitrary?" Orange County Bar Association Business Section (Summer 1993) (Summer 1995)
Conferences Planned
Conference Planner and Co-Host, Workshop on Innovative Teaching Methods & Materials: A Conference for Authors in Carolina Academic Press' "Context and Practice Series", Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, May 18-20, 2009.
Conference Planner, Co-Host, and Presenter for Opening and Closing of Conference, Implementing Best Practices and Educating Lawyers: Teaching Skills and Professionalism Across the Curriculum, Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, Washington, June 23-24, 2009.
Member, Conference Planning Committee, Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference: Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, September 6-7, 2008.
Conference Planner and Host, Humanizing Legal Education Symposium, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, October 19-21, 2007.
Other Activities
Co-Director, Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, 2009-
Invited Discussant, "The Future of the Coursebook," Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington, September 27, 2008.
One of less than 20 invited law teachers from law schools ranging from Harvard, Vanderbilt, and Georgetown to Elon and Seattle University to collaborate with representatives from all the legal publishers, Microsoft, Adobe, and other private sector entities to explore how law school coursebooks can be improved.
Appointed to Board of Directors, Kansas Legal Services.
Appointed to Board of Advisers, Institute for Law School Teaching.
Elected Chair (2008 term), American Association of Law Schools (AALS), Balance in Legal Education Section.
