Franklin Pierce Law Center Professor Joins Carnegie Foundation’s National Initiative on Law School Curricula

Franklin Pierce Law Center Professor John B. Garvey of New London, New Hampshire, has been invited to join a new legal education initiative on the future of law school curricula organized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Stanford Law School.

Garvey is one of only about a dozen individuals from throughout the United States to be asked to participate, together with representatives from 10 law schools. Invitations were extended to persons who are leaders in legal education generally and who have written and/or thought about the future of law school curriculum and pedagogy. Garvey is the Director of the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program at Franklin Pierce Law Center, which is a comprehensive practice-based teaching and bar licensing program designed to make law students client-ready.

The Carnegie Foundation has a long tradition of examining professional education, and the Foundation's recent study, Educating Lawyers, has generated a great deal of national attention on law school curriculum and pedagogy. The goal of the new initiative is to issue a report that will have a deep impact on how law schools educate their students and to help stimulate sensible reforms that build on curricular successes but recognize the potential for improvements.

The initial meeting of the group will be held in December at Stanford University Law School in Palo Alto, CA.

See also: "Training Law Students for Real-life Careers," by Jonathan D. Glater, The New York Times, October 31, 2007.