Cartoon Contracts: Episode I
posted by Dave Hoffman
Inspired by this, I’ve decided to supplement my teaching in Contracts this semester by making a series of cartoons about the class, about the Socratic method, and about law school in general. Xtranormal (free) makes it pretty easy to make such movies badly – I’m hoping that I will gain technical sophistication over time, and perhaps even make cartoons that move. In any event, you might find it interesting, especially if you use the Barnett casebook, which the videos are geared to. Here’s the first one. It’s about public policy, Fuller and Perdue, and the purposes of socratic teaching. I’ll post more as they come online:
September 3, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Posted in: Contract Law & Beyond
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James Grimmelmann - September 3, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Cool. I especially like the use of “assumpsit.”
My advice is to embrace the seemingly “bad” features of Xtranormal. Doctors, for example, have created some hilarious videos about drug-seeking patients. For some reason, the flat affect of the Xtranormal voices makes the histrionic complaints of severe pain all the funnier.
anon - September 4, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Excellent learning tool! Thank you for posting it.
Nancy - September 5, 2010 at 5:42 pm
This is hilarious!
Miriam Cherry - October 5, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Fun stuff! And the website actually isn’t difficult to use at all. Since I also use the Barnett book, maybe we could collaborate on coming up with some scripts. Cheers, Miriam
Javier - September 10, 2011 at 4:02 am
Should update to section 3…
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