At the NOSSCR Annual Conference in 2021, Vanderbilt Professor Emeritus of Law Frank Bloch and Rutgers Professor of Law Jon Dubin conducted a session on teaching Social Security Law, Policy and Practice at law schools, featuring their 2016 casebook SOCIAL SECURITY LAW, POLICY AND PRACTICE: CASES AND MATERIALS (West Academic Pub. Co. 2016).  They presented ideas and sample syllabi for teaching the course, as well as excerpts from the Teacher’s Manual for the casebook. Since then, they have published annual cumulative supplements through 2023, and are working on the 2024 update.  

Bloch and Dubin also updated the Teacher’s Manual, which outlines how to teach this course. They have made copies of the new Teacher’s Manual and current cumulative update/supplement available to NOSSCR members—free of charge—for those who want to teach this course at their local law schools or otherwise. For details on obtaining copies, contact Frank Bloch (frank.bloch@vanderbilt.edu) or Jon Dubin (Jdubin@law.rutgers.edu).