Joint Teaching with a Colleague, for Just a Week or Two

Abstract

This paper describes a joint teaching effort by two U.S. law school professors. One professor teaches constitutional law, and the other teaches property law, to the same set of first-year law students. For about two weeks during the semester, the professors blend their courses to teach, jointly, a subject that partakes of both constitutional law and property law - that subject being the requirement that government pay "just compensation" when it takes private property for public use. The paper discusses the rationale, the format, and the apparent benefits of their joint teaching efforts. The paper also offers advice to teachers who may wish to try something similar.