Please join us in the Hyatt, Room: Michigan B for the FCIL-SIS Teaching Foreign & International Legal Research Interest Group Meeting on Monday, July 18th 3:30pm - 4:15pm. Our three speakers are:
- Marylin Raisch, Associate Law Librarian for International and Foreign Law & Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center
- Alexis Fetzer, Reference & Research Services Librarian at Richmond School of Law
- Nina E. Scholtz, Head of Reference, Instruction Coordinator, & Lecturer in Law at Cornell Law School
Marylin Raisch
Raisch will share with us, her recommendations for how we can:- Easily create short videos of web database search tasks using Jing
- Boldly experiment with mind-mapping
- Simply illustrate examples of document seeking tasks and steps to the answer
- A screencast she created to respond to a research question on how to find briefs submitted to WTO panels
- A student-created MindMap
- A visual presentation with explanations of how to use free sites to research foreign and international law
Alexis Fetzer
Fetzer will share with us, her experience as a “non”-FCIL librarian proposing an FCIL research course. She will share her recommendations for how to:
- Develop your initial course syllabus
- Market your course to your institution’s curriculum committee
- Interest students in taking an FCIL Research course
Fetzer has written an article about this, which appeared in the May 2016 issue of the FCIL newsletter.
Nina E. Scholtz
Scholtz will share with us, her thoughts on teaching an experiential research course for international LLM students. She will share her recommendations and ideas on:- Anticipating some of the challenges created by time limitations, cultural differences, and student preferences that arise when teaching an experiential course for international LLMs
- Identifying solutions to these challenges
Please consider adding the FCIL-SIS Teaching Foreign & International Legal Research Interest Group Meeting to your schedule, Monday, July 18th 3:30pm - 4:15pm and come learn from our presenters and share with us your thoughts on teaching FCIL research.
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