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Creating Curricular Materials for Experiential Legal Education

July 30, 2011 to Aug. 5, 2011
 

Schedule [ English, Chinese]               Materials [ English, Chinese] 

On July 30, 2011, 22 professors from our Phase II participating law schools in China attended the Pacific McGeorge lead workshop on Creating Curricular Materials for Experiential Legal Education, held in Yinchuan China.  The five Phase II schools are:

Central China University of Science and Technology
North University of Nationalities
Southwest University of Science and Technology
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Wuhan University

This workshop served two objectives:

1.  Teach Chinese faculty how to create materials for experiential legal education in China

2.  Create materials that law schools throughout China will be able to use

Under the leadership of Phase I Professors Xu Shenjian and Liu Ying from China University of Political Science and Law, Professors Liu Jianming and Hu Minfei from Zhejiang Gongshang University, and Professor Teng Hongqing from South China University of Technology, the Phase II participants were divided into four groups:

• Mediation/Negotiation
• Clinical
• Persuasive Lawyering
• Traditional Doctrinal 

Each group is responsible for creating experiential curricular materials on the particular subject, which may include items such as an Overview/Introduction of the course, Theory of Experiential Learning, a Teachers Instruction Manual with sample syllabus, lesson plans, role plays, etc.

Professor Frank Bloch of Vanderbilt University and Professors Jay Leach, Jarrod Wong, Maureen Watkins from Pacific McGeorge also attended as advisors to the Phase I leaders.

Professor Wang Shirong a director of the Committee of Chinese Clinical Legal Educators and Professor Brian Landsberg from Pacific McGeorge acted as the overall Project Facilitators. 

The goal stemming from this workshop is to have the curricular materials finalized by the middle of the Fall 2011 semester and available for distribution to law schools throughout China thereafter.

At this point, Phase II Participants have gone through extensive trainings provided by Pacific McGeorge.  Within the past two years, they attended the 2009 Workshop in Wuhan, the 2010 Summer Workshop in Chengdu, and from Oct. 30 to Nov. 10, 2010, 10 participants were selected to attend an observational training and study tour at Pacific McGeorge.