Rory Bahadur
- Contact
- Robert J Dole HallRm 2141700 SW College AveTopeka, KS 66621-1117785.670.1743
- Degrees & Certifications
- University of Miami, Master of Arts
- St. Thomas Univ School of Law, Juris Doctor
- Career Accomplishments
Presentations
Presented, Plenary Session on Assessment, Association of American Law Schools (AALS) 2024 Workshop for New Law Teachers, Washington, DC, June 7, 2024 (with Kris Franklin).
"Civility in PIF: Making Systemic Racism feel Warm and Fuzzy," University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Interrogating the Hidden Curriculum: Implications for Formation of Professional Identity symposium, Denver, Colorado, September 22, 2023 (work in progress).
Presented expertise on innovative teaching methods which has been explored in his most recent article, "Directed Questions: A Non-Socratic Dialogue about Non-Socratic Teaching," and his book "Civil Procedure Casebook" at New Vision University and Free University in Tbilisi, Georgia, July 6, 2023.
"Implicit Bias: Why We are not Ourselves," Missouri Department of Revenue CLE, Jefferson City, Missouri, June 2023.
Plenary Presenter, "Assessment," American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Workshop for New Law School Teachers, Washington, D.C., June 9, 2023 (with Kris Franklin).
Presenter, "Directed Reading," Institute for Law Teaching and Learning (ILTL), Compliance with ABA Standards Conference, Sacramento, California, June 2, 2023 (with Kris Franklin).
Presenter, "Exploring the Impossibility of Anti-Racism in the Context of Law School Rankings," Earl E. O’Connor Inn of Court Ethics CLE, Overland Park, Kansas, May 2023.
Panelist, "Examining Analyses and Commentary of Institutional Bar Exam Performance," 2022 AccessLex Legal Education Research Symposium, Nashville, Tennessee, November 8, 2022.
"Implicit Bias: Why We Are Not Ourselves," Kansas Women Attorneys Association 33rd Annual Conference, Lindsborg, Kansas, July 15, 2022.
Invited Presenter, Two-day Faculty Development Workshop on Assessment facilitated by a Slovenian NGO funded by the US State Department, Tashkent State University of Law, Tashkent Uzbekistan, June 2022 (with Kris Franklin).
Plenary presentation, "Assessment and Feedback," Association of American Law Schools (AALS) 2022 Workshop for New Law School Teachers, Washington, DC, June 3, 2022 (with Kris Franklin).
"Implicit Bias: Why We are not Who We Think We Are," Spring 2022 Zoom CLE Webinar, Kansas Department of Administration, Office of Chief Counse, Topeka, Kansas, April 8, 2022.
Invited presenter, "Law School Rankings and the Impossibility of Anti-Racism," University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon, April 7, 2022.
Plenary Presenter, "Assessment," Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Workshop for New Law School Teachers, Washington, D.C., June 3, 2021 (virtual).
Panelist, Topeka Black Agenda, Omni Circle meeting, Topeka, Kansas, May 12, 2021 (discussion on community policing, implicit bias, racial profiling, qualified immunity, and over-policing in the Black Community).
Presenter, "Drafting and Grading Exams and Providing Meaningful Feedback," Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Faculty Focus National Webinar Series, April 6, 2021.
Invited Presenter, "Increasing Engagement in Law School Classrooms by Implementing Active Learning," Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, March, 2021.
"An Active Learning Approach to Teaching Civil Procedure," West Academic, February 24, 2021 (live webinar).
Invited Presenter, "Increasing Engagement in Law School Classrooms by the Implementation of Active Learning," University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina, January, 2020.
Presenter / Panelist, "Strategies for Bar Prep Success," Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, August 2, 2019.
Participant, "Mock Interviews for Prospective Law Students," Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, Boca Raton, Florida July 31, 2019.
Plenary Presenter / Panelist, "Demonstrating How to Engage and Motivate Students," Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, July 30, 2019.
Invited Presenter, "West Academic, Engaged Learning Forum," Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, July 29, 2019.
Invited Participant, West Academic Legal Distance Learning Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, July, 2019.
Plenary Presenter, "Assessment," American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Workshop for New Law School Teachers, Washington, D.C., June 8, 2019.
"Three Tangible Active Learning Methods to Teach Legal Analysis to First Year Students," Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) Annual Conference, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington, May 22, 2019.
Featured Speaker, "Implicit Bias and the Morality of Newsworthiness," Day Long In-Service Faculty Teaching Workshop, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, December 6 2018, (with Russell McClain, Kris Franklin and Paula Manning).
"Introduction to Law School Skills Workshop," Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO), University of Mississippi Robert C. Khayat Law School, Oxford, Mississippi, June 8, 2015.
"Evaluation/Assessment and Feedback with Active Learning," The Association of American Law Schools Workshop for New Law School Teachers, Washington, DC, June 5, 2015.
"Active and Multimodal Classroom Instruction," Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, February 23, 2015.
"Alternative Assessment Strategies," University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California, February 18, 2015.
"Active and Multimodal Instruction in the Doctrinal Classroom," St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami Gardens, Florida, October 10, 2014.
"Learning the Building Blocks of Legal Analysis in the Large Classroom," New York Law School, New York, October 6, 2014.
Presenter, "Introduction to Legal Analysis," American Bar Association, Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Six Week Pre-Law Summer Institute, Day Long Plenary, University of Mississippi School of Law, Oxford, Mississippi, June 2014.
Presenter, "Modeling Active Learning in Large Doctrinal Classes," Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Best Law Teachers Conference, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, June 2014.
Presenter, "Introduction to the Study of Law," American Bar Association, Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Six Week Pre-Law Summer Institute, Day Long Plenary, University of Mississippi School of Law, Oxford, Mississippi, June 2014.
Presenter, "Evaluation Assessment and Active Learning," The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Workshop for New Law School Teachers, Plenary Session, Washington, D.C., June 21, 2014.
Presenter, "Designing Effective ASP Teaching and Learning Experiences," Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) 2014 Annual Conference, Plenary Session, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 31, 2014.
Presenter, "Formative Assessment in Large Classes," Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Assessment Across the Curriculum Conference, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Bowen School of Law, Little Rock, Arkansas, April 5, 2014.
Presenter /Moderator, "New Skills and New Teaching Methods," USAID Judicial Independence and Legal Empowerment Project (JILEP), Georgia Legal Education Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia, February 15, 2014.
Presenter, "The Purpose of Law School and International Trends in Legal Education," USAID Judicial Independence and Legal Empowerment Project (JILEP), Georgia Legal Education Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia, February 15, 2014.
Presenter, "A Practical Guide to Teaching Legal Analysis and Statutory Interpretation Actively," Free University School of Law, Tbilisi, Georgia, February, 2014.
Plenary Speaker, "Evaluation," Association of American Law Schools 2013 Workshop for New Law School Teachers, Washington, D.C., June 22, 2013 (discussed methods to evaluate students and provide feedback throughout the semester and addressed exam creation, grading, and post-exam review).
Presenter/Panelist, "Changing Our Approaches to Teaching to Enhance Feedback and Assessment," Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Meeting, Amelia-Island, Florida, July 29, 2012.
Presenter, "Evaluation," AALS Workshop for New Law School Teachers, Plenary Session, Washington, D.C., June 23 2012.
Presenter, "An Active Learning Approach to Introducing Skills and Problem Solving in Chilean Legal Education," Institute for Law School Teaching and Learning, Teaching Methods Training for Law Professors from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, January, 2012.
Presenter, "Principles of Academic Support Pedagogy: Creating Context," Workshop on Academic Support, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 7, 2012.
Presenter, "Comparing Lecturing and Multimodal Instruction," Free State University of Tbilisi Teaching Workshop, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, August, 2011.
Presenter, "Everything we need to Know about Teaching we Learned in Pre-School: Active Learning and how to not Teach to Engage Students," Adjunct Teaching Workshop, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, February, 2011.
Speaker, "Assessment and Feedback with Active Learning," Presidential Program I - Teaching Excellence: Integrating Knowledge, Skills, Values and Assessment, 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, San Francisco, California, January 7, 2011.
Presenter, "Admitting and Remedying the Nonsense of Negligence," University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Kansas City, Missouri, April 9, 2010.
Presenter, "Everything We Need to Know About Teaching We Learned in Pre-school: Active Learning and How to Not Teach to Engage Students," Implementing Best Practices and Educating Lawyers: Teaching Skills and Professionalism Across the Curriculum, Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, Washington, June 24, 2009.
Presenter, "Best Practices for Evaluating Academic Support Programs," LSAC Southwest Academic Assistance Training Workshop, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas, November 10-11, 2006.
Panelist, "Around the World in 45 Minutes: Trends in Academic Assistance," LSAC Academic Assistance Training Workshop, June, 2005.
Professional Service
Executive Committee Member, Section on Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession, Association of American Law Schools (AALS), 2023.
Completed Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning at Center for Teaching Excellence and Learning (CTEL), May 2021.
Member, Board of Directors, The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), 2020-2023.
Chair, American Association of Law Schools Section on Teaching Methods, 2017-2018.
Treasurer, American Association of Law Schools Section on Teaching Methods, 2015-2016.
National Academic Curriculum Consultant, Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO), American Bar Association Division, 2013-2015.
Honors and Awards
Recipient, 2023 Ned Fleming Excellence in Teaching Award, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas.
Recipient, The Dean Jennifer L. Rosato Excellence in the Classroom Award, Drexel University Kline School of Law, May 23, 2022.
Washburn CTEL
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2020-2021
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning 2020-2021
