{"id":831,"date":"2014-07-22T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hlscasestudies\/?p=831"},"modified":"2014-08-08T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T17:59:16","slug":"the-problem-solving-workshop-a-video-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hlscasestudies\/2014\/07\/22\/the-problem-solving-workshop-a-video-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem Solving Workshop: A Video Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Lisa Brem, Case Studies Program Manager<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Problem Solving Workshop (PSW)\u2014a mandatory first-year course at Harvard Law School\u2014has been successfully integrated into the curriculum for five years. The course is a major departure from the rest of the first-year doctrinal courses, focusing instead on hands-on participation from students and community practitioner volunteers, team projects producing legal work product, and playing various legal roles.\u00a0 The course expands students\u2019 ideas of what it means to be a lawyer. Students consistently report that they appreciate the opportunity for hands-on work and meeting with active practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>The Case Studies Program has produced a short video featuring Professors Todd Rakoff and Joe Singer, authors of several PSW case studies and creators of the course in its current iteration. Professors Rakoff and Singer discuss how PSW came to be, how it addresses shortcomings in legal education, their experience teaching the course, and insights about their favorite case studies, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/casestudies.law.harvard.edu\/the-case-of-the-landlords-dilemma\/\">Landlord\u2019s Dilemma<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/casestudies.law.harvard.edu\/the-case-of-the-medical-stent\/\">Medical Stent<\/a>. The video also includes interviews with students about their experience in the course and footage from PSW classrooms.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cUTXCD4A968?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The PSW format has inspired other HLS professors, including Jonathan Zittrain, John Palfrey, Charles Nesson, and Susan Crawford, to expand into \u201cadvanced\u201d problem solving courses in <a href=\"http:\/\/casestudies.law.harvard.edu\/advanced-problem-solving-workshop-modules\/\">Internet and Society<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/casestudies.law.harvard.edu\/advanced-problem-solving-workshop-modules\/\">Intellectual Property<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/casestudies.law.harvard.edu\/advanced-problem-solving-workshop-modules\/\">Cyberlaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PSW case studies are very low cost or free and available to the public on our website: <a href=\"http:\/\/casestudies.law.harvard.edu\/about-harvard-law-case-studies\/\">Harvard Law School | The Case Studies<\/a>. Look for them under \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/casestudies.law.harvard.edu\/workshop-based-case-study\/\">Workshop-Based Case Studies<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lisa Brem, Case Studies Program Manager The Problem Solving Workshop (PSW)\u2014a mandatory first-year course at Harvard Law School\u2014has been successfully integrated into the curriculum for five years. The course is a major departure from the rest of the first-year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hlscasestudies\/2014\/07\/22\/the-problem-solving-workshop-a-video-introduction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[88569,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-problem-solving-workshop-blog-posts","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CR8M-dp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":729,"url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hlscasestudies\/2014\/03\/25\/check-out-our-menu-makeover\/","url_meta":{"origin":831,"position":0},"title":"Check Out Our Menu Makeover!","author":"Elizabeth Moroney","date":"March 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Better Browsing and Ready-to-Teach Units on HLS Case Studies Site The Case Studies Program is piloting new website features to help customers explore our offerings. 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