{"id":3290,"date":"2009-01-14T23:07:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T04:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2009-01-14T23:07:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T04:07:22","slug":"what-is-new-in-the-classroom-lawyers-like-presentations-in-iip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2009\/01\/what-is-new-in-the-classroom-lawyers-like-presentations-in-iip\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s New in the Classroom: Lawyerly Presentations in IIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I <\/span><\/span>spent the past few months pondering how to improve and experiment with the use of student presentations as part of my teaching in small and medium-sized classes.\u00a0 <\/span>Since I started teaching, I have been using presentations in most upper-level classes, not just seminars.\u00a0 <\/span>I have always believed that law schools should train students\u00a0as public speakers,\u00a0but, apart from extracurricular activities, such as moot court, not much of this training is really done. Yet, future lawyers will have to stand and present in many ways, not just to judges, but often to clients, other lawyers, fellow classmates, and CLE attendees.\u00a0 And students usually like presentations very much (maybe they are happy to get a break from the professor!), so I always found it natural to build upon and use this\u00a0interest as a useful tool in my role of legal educator.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>As I did in the past, I will\u00a0again\u00a0use presentations as part of my International Intellectual Property class this semester. Yet, maybe because students are more interested in this subject than in the past (globalization is, for good or for bad, a reality), I have a fairly larger number of students this year, compared to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>previous editions of this class.\u00a0 Still, I know for a fact that my previous students\u00a0truly liked the presentation part of the course, so I\u00a0decided to keep it, even if this has required some substantial changes in my approach.\u00a0 But this has so far been good, since I can use this as an oppotunity to make the presentation part of the class a\u00a0truly lawyerly type of presentation, i.e., short, effective, exhaustive, and hopefully a lot of fun! In particular, I have decided to <\/span><\/span>give each presenter\u00a0fifteen minutes, and to require PowerPoint slides.\u00a0I think students will greatly benefit from this format.\u00a0 <\/span>My goal is to train students to summarize in a short \u2014 but not too short \u2014 period of time their paper thesis and conclusion. The effort will primarily be the organizational work that the presentation will require.\u00a0\u00a0As<\/span> in real life, where lawyers often have a short time to make their case, students will then be required to organize their thoughts, polish them very well, and rehearse the presentation to make sure they will not go over time. \u00a0<\/span>I am sure this experiment will work well. On one side, students will (I hope) enjoy talking in a formally organized fashion to their classmates. Fellow classmates will also (again, I hope) enjoy listening about a variety of different topics relating to International Intellectual Property. Personally, I will very much look forward to my student presentations, which are always also a great source of learning, not just for the class, but also for me!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the past few months pondering how to improve and experiment with the use of student presentations as part of my teaching in small and medium-sized classes.\u00a0 Since I started teaching, I have been using presentations in most upper-level classes, not just seminars.\u00a0 I have always believed that law schools should train students\u00a0as public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-education","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}