Michael Hunter Schwartz

After serving eight years as the 10th Dean of the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law from 2017-2025, Michael Hunter Schwartz resumed his full-time faculty role as Professor of Law. He is a Consultant for the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning and has been teaching law since 1991. He is the author of Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook (Carolina Academic Press, 2009), Expert Learning for Law Students (2d ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2008), Pass the Bar! (Carolina Academic Press, 2006), Teaching Law by Design: Engaging Students from the Syllabus to the Final Exam (Carolina Academic Press, 2009), and What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press, 2011). He also is a named contributing author to Best Practices for Legal Education (CLEA 2007), and he has authored three law review pieces and several shorter works addressing various law teaching and learning topics. Professor Schwartz has delivered more than two dozen conference presentations on a wide variety of teaching and learning topics and has served as a consultant and/or invited speaker at more than two dozen law schools throughout the country.

Publications

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Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook, Fourth Edition

Forthcoming August 2025, 984 pp, casebound, ISBN 978-1-5310-2923-4

$187.00

Teacher's Manual forthcoming

Includes Core Knowledge for Lawyers online content
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Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook, Third Edition

2020, 968 pp, casebound, ISBN 978-1-5310-0806-2

$160.00

Teacher's Manual available

Includes Core Knowledge for Lawyers online content
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Expert Learning for Law Students, Second Edition

2008, 296 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-545-1

$45.00

Teacher's Manual forthcoming

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Expert Learning for Law Students Workbook, Second Edition

2008, 176 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-552-9

$34.00

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Pass the Bar!

2006, 340 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-165-1

$37.00

Teacher's Manual available