International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Michael Hunter Schwartz

Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz is a nationally-known expert in law school teaching and learning. Professor Schwartz is the author of EXPERT LEARNING FOR LAW STUDENTS (2005) and a co-author of PASS THE BAR! (2006), each of which has been adopted as a text at more than a dozen law schools. Professor Schwartz has authored two influential law review articles addressing teaching and learning, Teaching Law Students to be Self-Regulated Learners, 2003 MICH. STATE DET. C.L. L. REV. 447 (2003) and Teaching Law by Design: How Learning Theory and Instructional Design Can Inform and Reform Law Teaching, 38 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 347 (2001), and he has authored several shorter essays on law teaching topics. Professor Schwartz recently signed a contract with Harvard University Press to author WHAT THE BEST LAW TEACHERS DO (forthcoming 2011), a follow-up to Ken Bain’s enormously successful WHAT THE BEST COLLEGE TEACHERS DO (2004). Professor Schwartz also is under contract with Carolina Academic Press to author both a contracts text and a remedies text and to serve as series editor for an innovative series of law school texts he designed to implement many of the ideas in BEST PRACTICES FOR LEGAL EDUCATION and the Carnegie Foundation’s EDUCATING LAWYERS: PREPARATION FOR THE PROFESSION OF LAW (2007) and to apply instructional design and learning theory principles to the design of law school instruction.