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DESCRIPTION:The Faculty of Law is honoured to welcome Professor Todd Rakoff
  (Harvard) for a presentation about Harvard’s Problem Solving Workshop. Co
 lleagues from all Quebec law faculties are warmly invited to attend this p
 resentation and learn about Harvard Law School’s exciting experiential lea
 rning course for all first-year students.  \n\nThis activity is accredited
  for 1.5 hours of continuing legal education for jurists.\n\nAbstract\n\nT
 he Problem Solving Workshop is a three-week intensive program that all fir
 st-year Harvard Law School students are required to take.\n\nAs is set out
  in the course description\, the Harvard workshop allows students to “conf
 ront client problems—framed from the clients’ and attorneys’ points of vie
 w and designed expressly for the Workshop—in the way practicing lawyers do
 \, from the very beginning\, before the facts are all known\, before the c
 lient’s goals are clarified\, before the full range of options is explored
 \, and before a course of conduct is chosen.\n\nRather than teach law in t
 he abstract\, the course poses questions like these: What sort of problems
  do lawyers solve? How do they solve them? What intellectual constructs do
  they bring to bear? What practical judgments? And\, as students find the 
 answers to those questions\, they learn to combine their knowledge of the 
 law with practical judgment to help clients attain their goals within the 
 bounds of the law.”\n\nProfessor Rakoff will share his experiences and ins
 ights in running this unique course that bridges the gap between academic 
 study and practical lawyering.\n\nBiography\n\nByrne Professor of Administ
 rative Law Todd Rakoff teaches contracts and administrative law at the Har
 vard Law School (HLS)\, where he has been Dean of the J.D. Program.\n\nPro
 fessor Rakoff has been actively involved in many of HLS’s educational expe
 riments and reforms of the last quarter century\, including the experiment
 al integrated curriculum of the 1980s and the move to smaller first year s
 ections in the late 1990s.\n\nIn the last several years\, he and Professor
  Joseph Singer have created and led the School’s Problem Solving Workshop\
 , an experiential course that is now a required part of the first year cur
 riculum. He has also organized programs for teachers around the country\, 
 through the Association of American Law Schools\, and internationally\, th
 rough the parallel international association.\n
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Problem Solving at Harvard 
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/event/problem-solving-harvard-260081
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