Professor Angela Lee awarded Ryerson University's Teaching Fellowship

This past January, Lincoln Alexander Law's Professor Angela Lee joined Ryerson University's Teaching Fellows Program, which encourages a scholarly and reflective approach to teaching and engagement. The fellowship provides faculty with an opportunity to engage deeply with a pedagogical issue, problem, challenge, or enhancement that will add to their and our understanding of disciplinary teaching, innovative approaches to teaching and learning, and pedagogies that address social justice and inequity.

As part of this fellowship, Professor Lee will focus on a project that seeks to reflect more intentionally the law school's curricular design and pedagogical practices, and to evaluate the extent to which these are contributing to the realization of the school's mission - to shape lawyers who are committted to social and racial justice, technologically literate, and equipped to work for communities that have traditionally been underserved. In particular, this project asks how legal education can be made more holistic, how so-called “soft” or “transferable” skills can be taught (and the value of such skills adequately communicated), and how to build a lasting sense of community among the students that they can take with them beyond the law school's doors.

The two-year fellowship program accepts three fellows in two distinct cohorts. Professor Lee is part of the first cohort, which runs from January 2022 to December 2023. Projected outcomes of the fellowship include publicly shared products for critique and use by the community.