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I am thankful to @dsandomierski & Shauna Van Praagh for bringing us together during the pandemic to reflect on our experiences as law profs. I contributed a piece as did my @UAlbertaLaw colleagues Chris Samuel & Annalise Acorn https://twitter.com/westernuLaw/status/1339237142728482816
Chris Samuel reflects on the cancellation of the 1L Moots last March and offers some ideas about what mooting might look like during a period of remote learning https://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/volume-25-2020/volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-vol25-num4/all-dressed-up-with-nowhere-to-moot/
Annalise Acorn describes a "worst case scenario" exercise she has used for years in her professional responsibility class & how it sat differently while teaching PR during a global pandemic https://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/volume-25-2020/volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-vol25-num4/stoicism-and-professional-responsibility-in-a-pandemic/
I returned to an idea I raised here (on Twitter) last spring - do we expect too much of ourselves when we aim for resilience? Is endurance a more human goal? https://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/volume-25-2020/volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-vol25-num4/resilience-was-a-bridge-too-far-wonder-endurance-and-exhaustio/
I'm looking forward to reading the contributions. I started with @carolmliao's reflections on race & racism in the Canadian legal academy. It is an important contribution & I strongly encourage my colleagues across Canada to give it a read https://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/volume-25-2020/volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-vol25-num4/on-race-and-academia-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
@AcharyaNayha’s contribution includes a beautiful letter to her @SchulichLaw students about building a career that reflects their internal drivers & being open to uneasiness as evidence that a course correction might be needed https://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/volume-25-2020/volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-vol25-num4/how-covid-19-rekindled-the-spirit-of-teaching/
"In the end, while I care about how you do in Civ Pro, I care far more that you live very much in tune with yourself, so that you live very fully, and that your career is an expression of who you are, and not who you think you are supposed to be."
@nobyrnelaw & @UNBLaw student Alden Spencer write about designing online courses using film & TV: a non-credit evidence law & film course, and a 1L criminal law course based around The Wire. They provide a # of "lessons learned" for online course design https://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/volume-25-2020/volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-vol25-num4/leaving-the-classroom-behind-lessons-learned-from-designing-an-online-law-and-film-webinar-series/
@adrienhaber @umoncton writes (en français) about the windows that opened (eg the peculiar intimacy that flows from videoconferencing w/ students) & the doors that closed (eg no more hallway conversations w/ colleagues) when we switched to remote learning https://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/volume-25-2020/volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-vol25-num4/fenetres-ouvertes-et-portes-fermees/
@TenilleEBrown @LawLakehead reflects on how to centre the concept of place in one's teaching during a period of remote instruction & social distancing. She describes a pre-pandemic class exercise that had students use a digital mapping database https://lexelectronica.openum.ca/files/sites/103/Vol25_Num4_Brown-60-64.pdf
@JeffreyMeyers @thompsonriversu writes that the pandemic has highlighted existing shortcomings in legal education (incl. 100% finals, the "hegemony of PowerPoints", precarious faculty) & argues that we should use this moment to reinvent the project https://www.lex-electronica.org/articles/volume-25-2020/volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-volume-25-2020-vol25-num4/accommodate-us-all-please-a-case-against-the-status-quo/
