On Tuesday, April 18 – Larry Farmer, Professor of Law at Brigham Young University, will speak on "Integration of Technology and Teaching," at a Faculty Forum at noon in the Strong Common Room in Bergin Hall.
Larry C. Farmer is a Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where he has taught since 1977. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Psychology from Brigham Young University in 1975.
Professor Farmer served as a Supreme Court Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. in 1976/77 and was a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School in 1986/87. He has directed research projects studying the role of technology in the delivery of legal services, as a tool for managing case flow in the federal courts and in law school skills instruction. Professor Farmer directed a National Science Foundation study of legal negotiations and the West Publishing funded project that originally designed and developed the Computer Based Practice System (CAPS) software at Brigham Young University that is now distributed as HotDocs by Lexis-Nexis.
In collaboration with Professor Stan Neeleman and others, he has developed and published a number of practice systems using the CAPS and HotDocs authoring tools. Professor Farmer’s current research focuses on the use of technology to make legal interviewing and counseling instruction more effective and efficient.
His current teaching interests include courses on Legal Interviewing and Counseling; Computer-Based Practice Systems; and Strategies for Acquiring Professional Expertise.