For Teachers

Overview

This section compiles multiple resources for educators, including:

Example Syllabi (Schlanger, Dolovich)
Additional Syllabi & Teaching Materials
Featured Panel: Varied Teaching Perspectives [Video]
Prior Casebook Supplements

Teachers' Manual

A Teachers’ Manual by Margo Schlanger is available from West Academic, the casebook’s publisher. It includes introductory material (Selecting Coverage; To Tour or Not to Tour; Integrating a Practicum Component) as well as chapter-by-chapter notes.

If you teach these materials, we would love to add your perspective to what’s on offer here at the casebook website—your syllabus, additional reading, questions for students, etc. The items we’ve received are listed/linked at the bottom of this page. To share materials or suggestions, you can use the “suggestions” button at the top of this page. Or email us. In addition, there is a listserv for law school and affiliated faculty who teach about prisons and the law; please feel free to email to be added.

Sample Syllabi

These are two 3-credit syllabi, one used by Margo Schlanger (University of Michigan), the other by Sharon Dolovich (UCLA).

Additional Syllabi & Materials (Prior Edition)

Andrea Armstrong, Incarceration Deaths Seminar (2 credits, Loyola New Orleans). Full teaching materials (assignments with grading rubrics, reading assignments, instructional memos for teachers and students, and slides/materials for units on trauma and interviews)
Andrea Armstrong, Incarceration Law (2 credits, Loyola New Orleans); see also www.incarcerationtransparency.org
Sheila Bedi, class taught for half law students, half incarcerated students (3 credits, Northwestern, Fall 2021)
Sharon Dolovich, Prison Law and Policy (4 credits, UCLA Law, Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
Jenny Carroll, Justin Driver, Grace Li, Jamelia Morgan, Judith Resnik, Zal Shroff, Liman Workshop, Imprisoned (Yale, Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
Gabe Eber, Prisons, Public Health, and Human Rights (2 credits, Spring 2022, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health)
Shon Hopwood, Prison Law and Policy (3 credits, Georgetown Law).
Danielle Jefferis, Prison Law & Policy (3 credits, California Western, Spring 2022)
Michael Mushlin, Prisoners Rights (Pace, Fall 2021)
Reena Parikh, Incarceration Law (3 credits, Boston College, Spring 2022)
Sarah Ricks, Current Issues in Civil Rights Litigation (3 credits, Rutgers, Spring 2022)
Margo Schlanger & Amy Fettig, Prisons and the Law (2 credits, University of Michigan, Winter 2022)
Margo Schlanger, Race, Gender, and Incarceration (1 credit, University of Michigan Law, Winter 2021)

Margo Schlanger, Incarceration and the Law (3 credits, University of Michigan Law, Winter 2020)

Featured Panel: Varied Teaching Perspectives

This panel at the 2021 annual conference of the Association of American Law Schools was co-sponsored by the sections on Civil Rights and Criminal Justice. Panel description: In the mass incarceration era, criminal justice is a central focus of civil rights concerns, but the law school curriculum often does not accord sustained attention to post-conviction civil rights. This panel explored how this gap might be filled. Speakers: Andrea Armstrong (Loyola University New Orleans); Sheila Bedi (Northwestern); Sharon Dolovich (UCLA); Shon Hopwood (Georgetown); Pamela Karlan (Stanford); Margo Schlanger (U. Mich.).

Prior Casebook Supplements

Although the 11th casebook edition entirely supersedes previous editions, supplements to the 10th edition remain available for download below.