There was some nice coverage of the Skills & Values Series from Lexis (on which I am co-series editor) on the Law Skills Prof Blog. Thanks to Scott Fruehwald for the mention.
The Skills & Values Series of law school textbooks is designed to address the critical gap in teaching materials for legal education. We all know we need more practice-focused teaching, but we still are working with expensive casebooks full of appellate cases. So those of us who want to teach in a "Carnegie Integrated" way need different teaching materials. These books are hybrid texts, part of which is in print, and most of which is online in the Lexis Webcourses platform.(I argued in favor of this sort of hybrid text in the Law School 2.0 book, so I figured I should write one!) If you adopt a Skills & Values text, your webcourse is already set up for you, and fully populated with supporting information for the course.
I wrote a text in the Skills & Values Series for my Discovery course, called S&V Discovery Practice. I used it for the first time last spring semester, and it was very well received by the students. I am pleased to report that it has been adopted at four schools this spring, all of them top schools, so I am frankly humbled by this.
More information about the S&V Series of books can be obtained from your Lexis publishing rep. There are S&V books for Contracts, Torts, Wills & Trusts, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Discovery, and Negotiation skills. More on the way, including Administrative law (soon!)
