Stone Soup in 2L and 3L Courses

The Stone Soup Project is about learning how things actually work in practice.  Exposing students to the real world of practice through interviews or observations of actual cases can help them make sense of legal doctrine. Although we have started using Stone Soup in traditional ADR courses, the same techniques can work in a wide … Continue reading Stone Soup in 2L and 3L Courses

Consider Cooking Up Stone Soup in the Fall – Especially in Clinical and Externship Courses

During the summer, faculty plan their courses for the fall. This is a good time to consider including Stone Soup assignments in your courses, especially clinical and externship courses. Faculty who used Stone Soup assignments found that they and their students almost invariably were very enthusiastic, feeling that this was a valuable contribution to students’ … Continue reading Consider Cooking Up Stone Soup in the Fall – Especially in Clinical and Externship Courses

Collected Stone Soup Resources

The Stone Soup Project developed an extensive set of materials for faculty to help their students get a better understanding of the real world of practice.  This post collects links to these materials in one place so that faculty can easily include a Stone Soup assignment in a wide range of courses.  Although these materials … Continue reading Collected Stone Soup Resources

Stone Soup:  It’s a Great Idea But . . .

We all know about situations when people say that they really like the idea of ADR, but it’s not appropriate in their particular case.  Sometimes there are very good reasons not to use an ADR process.  Other times, not so much. There may be similarities in some people’s reaction to the idea of using a … Continue reading Stone Soup:  It’s a Great Idea But . . .