The Scholarly and Pedagogical Benefits of the Legal Laboratory: Lessons from the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury at Yale Law School

J Law Med Ethics. 2023;51(3):672-683. doi: 10.1017/jme.2023.126. Epub 2023 Dec 13.

Abstract

In our article, we share the lessons we have learned after creating and running a successful legal laboratory over the past seven years at Yale Law School. Our legal laboratory, which focuses on the intersection of law and severe brain injury, represents a unique pedagogical model for legal academia, and is closely influenced by the biomedical laboratory.

Keywords: Brain Injury; Law and Medicine; Law and Neuroscience; Law and Society; Legal Pedagogy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Brain Injuries*
  • Humans
  • Schools*