Pattern Recognition: Teaching the Hierarchy of Sources of International Law by Comparison with the Hierarchy of Sources of American Law
Start Date
30-5-2024 3:00 PM
End Date
30-5-2024 3:30 PM
Document Type
Presentation
Description
This session will demonstrate how to scaffold a discussion of the hierarchy of sources in international law by beginning with a review of the hierarchy of sources in American law. We will also experience the efficacy of combining physical manipulation of magnets along with a think-pair-share exercise to cement our newfound insights about hierarchy into long-term memory. The addition of magnets will make the exercise more fun, and the magnet as a souvenir might even inspire some future spaced retrieval.
Speaker Bio
Amelia Landenberger is an Assistant Professor, Law Library, at the University of Akron School of Law. She was previously a senior legal information librarian specializing in FCIL at Boston University’s Fineman and Pappas Law Libraries, Outreach Librarian at the University of Kentucky Law Library, and a law library fellow at the William A. Wise Law Library at the University of Colorado. She has been teaching first-year legal research for eight years. This is also her sixth year of teaching or co-teaching FCIL research, and she has also had the opportunity to teach Essential Bar Skills for L.L.M.s at BU, Advanced Legal Research as an adjunct at New England Law | Boston, and Kentucky Legal Research at UK.
Pattern Recognition: Teaching the Hierarchy of Sources of International Law by Comparison with the Hierarchy of Sources of American Law
This session will demonstrate how to scaffold a discussion of the hierarchy of sources in international law by beginning with a review of the hierarchy of sources in American law. We will also experience the efficacy of combining physical manipulation of magnets along with a think-pair-share exercise to cement our newfound insights about hierarchy into long-term memory. The addition of magnets will make the exercise more fun, and the magnet as a souvenir might even inspire some future spaced retrieval.