LL.M. in Experiential Law Teaching
What is the LL.M. in Experiential Law Teaching?
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An increasing number of law schools throughout the world have recognized the need to improve their teaching of lawyering skills by offering clinical and professional skills courses. Many law professors who wish to teach such courses recognize their need to learn new teaching methodologies, as well as the theories they are based on.
Pacific McGeorge has developed a unique and exciting new program to train law professors in experiential law teaching. This program takes advantage of the fact that Pacific McGeorge has been rated 5th among all American law school for the strength of it's program in advocacy.
Who obtains the LL.M. in Experiential Law Teaching?
The first students in the LL.M. in Experiential Law Teaching program were law professors from three universities in China who came to Pacific McGeorge under a $1.6 million grant from USAID with the goal of learning to teach American-style advocacy in China.
Since then, the law school has also partnered with the Leavitt Foundation, an organization that has been teaching trial skills to lawyers in Ukraine. Several lawyers from Ukraine are sponsored by the Leavitt Foundation as well as several Chinese law professors who are currently earning LL.M. degrees at Pacific McGeorge.
Candidates for the LL.M. in Experiential Law must successfully complete at least 24 credit units over a period of two semesters and have a cumulative grade point average in course work of not less than 2.67 (on a 4.33 scale).
Both American and non-American law graduates may enroll in this one-year, two-semester program, regardless of whether they are recent graduates or have been in law teaching or practice for a number of years.
The goals of the program are to help current and future law professors develop and refine their ability to teach lawyering skills to others when they return home.
Non-American law graduates may also qualify to sit for the New York Bar exam after completing the LL.M. in Experiential Law Teaching.
Why Pacific McGeorge for an LL.M. in Experiential Law Teaching?
The Center for Advocacy & Dispute Resolution offers a wide range of advantages and opportunities to students pursuing their LL.M. degrees including:
The Center for Advocacy & Dispute Resolution takes maximum advantage of its prime location directly in the heart of the government of the nation’s largest state. Students study in sunny Sacramento, on a modern, safe, self-enclosed campus, only minutes away from the state’s Capitol Building.
Pacific McGeorge faculty bring years of experience to their teaching; practitioners add to the classroom the expertise and wisdom gained from the daily give-and-take of law practice in international venues.
Center for Advocacy & Dispute Resolution students from countries other than the United States join a community of approximately 50 foreign law students studying on the Pacific McGeorge campus, and receive special assistance with course selection, class success, and adjusting to student life in the United States.
Center for Advocacy & Dispute Resolution Graduates go great places. LL.M. students and lawyers who graduate with the LL.M. in Experiential Law Teaching have access to Pacific McGeorge's broad base of alumni who work in over 40 countries worldwide.