迈克尔·亨特·施瓦茨
Dean Schwartz is the 10th Dean of the University of Pacific’s McGeorge School of 法律. 他于2017年7月1日开始工作.
Dean Schwartz is the author of seven books (three of which come with lengthy teacher’s manuals), 七篇法律评论论文, 书中的三章, and eight shorter works addressing a wide variety of teaching, 学习和课程设计主题. Schwartz's books include What the Best 法律 Teachers Do (Harvard University Press 2013) and a contracts textbook, Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook (3d ed. 2020), which was the first book in a textbook series he designed to modernize law school casebooks (which he now edits).
Dean Schwartz is a national leader in law school teaching and learning. Dean Schwartz has delivered more than 230 professional presentations about teaching and learning in law school. Dean Schwartz is a Consultant to the Institute for 法律 Teaching and Learning, and he is a member of the board of advisors for a national legal publisher and two peer-reviewed law reviews.
在施瓦茨担任院长期间, he has overseen the law school’s highest bar pass rate in 25 years, 最高U.S. 新闻 & World Report job placement rate in the history of McGeorge, and one of the 15 largest gifts in the history of U.S. 法律教育.
Dean Schwartz has overseen the creation of an Honors Accelerated JD Degree, the creation of three online MSL degrees and an online LLM degree, a law-focused undergraduate study abroad program, the 萨克拉门托 Legal Employers Diversity Collective, and an experiential alumni mentoring program for first-year law students. 在施瓦茨的领导下, the Center for Inclusion and Diversity was created in 2018 and a Military and Veteran Student Center was created in 2021 on the law school’s campus.
Dean Schwartz's leadership is evident through his role as Chair-Elect for the Association of American 法律 学校 (AALS) Section for Alternatively Scheduled JD 项目. His previous work as chair of the AALS Sections on Deans, 科学版, 教学方法, and Balance in Legal Education reflects his commitment to shaping the future of legal academia. Dean Schwartz也参加了就职典礼, 10-member Dean’s Advisory Board for the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Legal Education Police Practices Consortium.
2024年1月，《正规博彩十大网站》 named Dean Schwartz the 9th Most Influential Person in Legal Education. He was also ranked on the list in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Dean Schwartz’s Contracts course was selected by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System as “an innovative course that reflects exemplary innovative teaching.” In 2019, Schwartz was one of 30 CLEO Edge Award Honorees in the Education category, underscoring his transformative contributions to the field.
在担任麦乔治法学院院长之前, Schwartz was dean at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of 法律 in Little Rock, Arkansas from 2013-2017. He taught at Washburn University School of 法律 in Topeka, 从2006年到2013年, where he also served as the law school’s Associate Dean for Faculty Development and the Co-Director of the Institute for 法律 Teaching and Learning.
Dean Schwartz invites you to follow his blog on innovation in 法律教育, 伟大的法学院做了什么.
对Dean Schwartz的采访
代表性奖学金及活动
代表的书
What the Best 法律 Teachers Do (Harvard University Press 2013).
法律学生专家学习(3d版2018).
Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook Teacher's Manual (3d ed. forthcoming spring 2020) (first book in a casebook series I created and edit).
Teaching 法律 by Design for Adjuncts II (Carolina Academic Press, 2017).
设计教学法II (2016).
代表性法律评论文章
Towards a Modality-Less Model for Excellence in 法律 School Teaching, 70 Syracuse L. 牧师. __(2020年春季).
Fifty Ways to Promote Teaching and Learning, 67 J Legal Ed. 696 (2018).
Teaching 法律 Students to be Self-Regulated Learners, 2003 Mich. 国家相同. C.L. L. 牧师. 447(2003年夏天).
Teaching 法律 by Design: How Learning Theory and Instructional Design Can Inform and Reform 法律 Teaching, 38圣地亚哥L. 牧师. 347 (2001) reprinted in The Doctrine-Skills Divide: Legal Education's Self-Inflicted Wound (Carolina Academic Press 2017).
代表性著作
Learning Theory and Teaching Theory in Building on Best Practices (Lexis-Nexis Publishing 2015).
Engaging First-Year 法律 Students by Treating Them Like Colleagues in Brockmann/Pilniok (eds.), Studieneingangsphase In Der Rechtswissenschaft (Nomos Publishing House, 2014).
代表性专业活动
Chair of AALS Sections on 科学版 (2019), 院长(2018), 教学方法(2013), 法律教育与平衡(2009).
Member, AALS Membership 牧师iew Committee (2019-present)
Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Academic Curriculum Consultant (2011-2012)
咨询委员会，卡罗莱纳学术出版社
更多的 than 200 professional presentations, including more than 75 invited talks at U.S. 法学院和非美国学生.S. law faculty from Chile, Georgia, Germany, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan.
