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Cornell’s Experience Running Online, Inter-School Law Courses – An FAQ

Author
Martin, Peter
Abstract
For eight years Cornell’s Legal Information Institute has offered online law courses to
students at other US law schools. Using a paced asynchronous approach, with streaming
audio linked to referenced Web materials, interactive problems, online discussion, and a
series of written exercises, the courses offer a successful model of how law schools can
pool teaching resources and students to enrich curricula. The article reports on and
explains the choices, challenges, student response, and educational outcomes of this
ongoing experiment, organized around ten frequently asked questions. It also ventures
some cautious conclusions about the near-term prospects for distance learning in US legal
education, noting both inhibiting forces, including importantly constraints imposed by
accreditation rules, and recent grounds for optimism.
Date Issued
2004-11Subject
Distance Learning; Legal Information Institute; American Bar Association accreditation; Law Schools
Previously Published As
39 International J. of Legal Education 70 (2005)
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
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Type
article
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