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Preparing law schools
A significant research and development investment into future methods of bar preparation.
The Building Bar Skills Initiative, led by our Center for Legal Education Excellence®, is expanding AccessLex Institute’s existing bar preparation offerings by actively working to bridge the gap between standard methods of legal education and future approaches to legal training. Both the Building Bar Skills Modules and Helix NextGen are designed to prepare students for the skills-oriented NextGen Uniform Bar Exam.
Module Building Teams
Module Building Teams
Central to this initiative is the work of the Building Bar Skills Initiative’s Module Building Teams. Now in its third year, the third cohort of Module Building Teams are doctrinal and skills faculty and staff drawn from six different law schools. These teams are developing and testing innovative curriculum units that, upon completion, will create a catalog of Bar Skills Modules, covering all of the doctrinal subjects tested on the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam (NextGen UBE). Complete with student learning outcomes, assessment materials, and professor guides, Bar Skills Modules equip law faculty and instructors with easily adopted assignments for use in doctrinal courses that are designed to cultivate the skills tested on the NextGen UBE.
If you haven’t already, you can request your free access to the Bar Skills Modules below.
Bar Skills Modules
Bar Skills Modules
AccessLex Institute’s Bar Skills Modules are a series of easily adapted Modules, aligned with bar-tested doctrinal subjects. Bar Skills Modules introduce law students to the skills tested on the NextGen UBE through formative assessments and exercises. Developed by Module Building Teams comprised of law school skills and doctrinal staff and faculty, each set of Modules was utilized in a classroom setting and updated based on law student response and performance. Each Bar Skills Module set includes associated skills-based student learning outcomes, professors' notes, assessment exercises and rubrics, and model answers to support easy adoption by law faculty and instructors.
Bar Skills Modules are available at no cost to law faculty and instructors.
The Third Catalog of Bar Skills Modules
The Third Catalog of Bar Skills Modules
Based on the work of our third cohort of Module Building Teams, a new slate of Building Bar Skills Modules was released in March 2026.
Cohort 3 Modules
- Business Associations
- Constitutional Law
- Evidence
- Family Law
- Mixed-Subjects
- Con Law and Torts
- Family Law and Contracts
If you have already requested access to the first or second catalog of modules, you will receive notice of the new set upon release.
Fourth Cohort of Module Building Teams
2026-27
Business Associations and Criminal Law
Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University
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Assistant Professor of Law
Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University
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Associate Professor of Law, Director of Legal Clinics
Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University
Criminal Law
Cooley Law School
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Associate Dean of Academics, Professor
Cooley Law School
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Professor and Director of Academic Support Services
Cooley Law School
Criminal Procedure
University of Missouri School of Law
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Curator's Distinguished Teaching Professor
University of Missouri School of Law
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Associate Professor of Law
University of Missouri School of Law
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Isidor Loeb Professor of Law
University of Missouri School of Law
Legal Research and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
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Director of J.D. Online Curriculum and Faculty Development,
Dean’s Fellow for Innovation,
Clinical Professor of Law
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
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Clinical Professor of Law
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Wills and Estates
Cooley Law School and University of Idaho College of Law
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Professor of Law
Cooley Law School
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Professor and Executive Director of the Sixty Plus Inc. Elderlaw Clinic
Cooley Law School
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Associate Clinical Professor of Bar Success
University of Idaho College of Law
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Assistant Professor of Law, Director of the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
University of Idaho College of Law