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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.
Third Cohort of Module Building Teams, 2025-26
Business Associations
Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University and University of Idaho College of Law
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Assistant Professor of Law, Director of Bar Studies
Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University
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Assistant Professor of Law, Director of J.D./M.B.A. Program and Business Essentials Micro-Credential Program
Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University
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Professor
University of Idaho College of Law
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Director of Low-Income Tax Clinic
University of Idaho College of Law
Constitutional Law
Cooley Law School, University of Missouri School of Law, and University of Idaho College of Law
Individual designated with a (*) will be drafting multi-subject Modules, with Constitutional Law as the leading topic for their Modules.
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Professor
Cooley Law School
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Professor
Cooley Law School
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Director of Legal Research and Writing, Teaching Professor of Law
University of Missouri School of Law
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Professor
University of Missouri School of Law
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Associate Professor
University of Idaho College of Law
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Professor
University of Idaho College of Law
Family Law
University of Washington School of Law, Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, and Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University
Individual designated with a (*) will be drafting multi-subject Modules, with Family Law as the leading topic for their Modules.
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Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Academic Success
University of Washington School of Law
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Associate Teaching Professor, Exec. Director of Graduate Education, Interim Assoc. Dean of Students
University of Washington School of Law
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Clinical Director, Gailor Family Law Litigation Clinic
Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
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Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Academic Success
Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
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Associate Director of Bar Studies and Assistant Professor of Legal Skills
Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University
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Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Legal Education and International Programs
Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University