1st session of reading group: Pedagogy and Classroom Dynamics

In the first session of our reading group, we read excerpts from the following texts:

1) LEGAL EDUCATION AS TRAINING FOR HIERARCHY, Duncan Kennedy (http://freespace.virgin.net/suzanne.boyce/files/book1/2_3.htm)

2) BECOMING GENTLEMEN: WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES AT ONE IVY LEAGUE LAW SCHOOL, Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine, Jane Balin, Ann Bartow, and Deborah Lee Stachel (143 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1)

3) PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED, Ch. 2, Paulo Freire (http://www.marxists.org/subject/education/freire/pedagogy/ch02.htm)

4) MINORITY LAW PROFESSORS' LIVES: THE BELLDELGADO SURVEY, Richard Delgado, Derrick Bell (24 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 349)

Here are other suggested readings:

1) MAKING DOCILE LAWYERS: AN ESSAY ON THE PACIFICATION OF LAW STUDENTS (111 Harv. L. Rev. 2027)

2) A DIALOGUE ABOUT SOCRATIC TEACHING, Peggy Cooper Davis, Elizabeth Ehrenfest Stienglass (23 NYURLSC 249)

3) Review of Duncan Kennedy's new book, which includes the aforementioned essay: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/kennedy804.htm

4) Critique of Kennedy's aforementioned essay:
http://www.lsus.edu/la/journals/ideology/contents/shainarticle.htm



Professor Bryan Stevenson and members of NYU Law '06 at Yale Law's 2004 Rebellious Lawyering conference.