Christine Hurt, a lawprof at Marquette, has been running an interesting pedagogical experiment:
[My] students were required to read the WSJ daily and to post weekly [here] on some topic that they read there. They were also required to comment to someone else’s post four times in the semester. Both the students and I realized halfway through the semester that if I wanted to incentivize dialogue, then comments should be valued the same as posts. Next Fall, I will continue to use the blog, but will change the requirements to reflect this goal of dialogue and not just of independent “blurts.” I do think the blog enables me to ascertain if students are catching on to concepts we discuss in class by watching them apply those same concepts to actual events.
This blog may or may not be of any interest to your general readers, but I think it is a rare blog in that it is not just professors blogging on legal topics or law students blogging on social or law school-related topics. Both students and [the 2] professors . . . blog on corporate law-related topics, with some guest bloggers (practitioners) chiming in on a semi-voluntary basis!
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