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Enabling Lifelong Learning For Law Students: In Class, Out Of Class, After Class, Kylie Fletcher, Louise Parsons
Enabling Lifelong Learning For Law Students: In Class, Out Of Class, After Class, Kylie Fletcher, Louise Parsons
Kylie Fletcher
There is little doubt that, to ensure success both at law school and after law school, students must develop and practice both generic and law-specific study skills and engage in independent learning. Students come to law school from different educational backgrounds and experiences. Although some have well developed study skills before commencing their legal studies, many lack a clear understanding of what is involved in independent learning. Early semester law students in particular lack these basic skills, and some do not have access to the same learning support opportunities as their peers. Some important questions arise. First, should law schools …
The First-Semester Student: The Legal-Problem-Solving Apprentice, Kylie Fletcher
The First-Semester Student: The Legal-Problem-Solving Apprentice, Kylie Fletcher
Kylie Fletcher
Students are asked to answer hypothetical legal problems very early in their studies. They are typically introduced to legal-problem-solving processes (eg IRAC, FILAC, MIRAT and CLEO) very early in their first- semester subjects. An ability to answer hypothetical legal problems is critical to the student’s success at law school. In my role as a teacher in a firstsemester subject (Principles of Contractual Liability), I observe that some students remain confused about the process that they adopt to answer hypothetical legal problems well into their first semester. Further, many students fail to understand that the process they adopt can be applied …
Teaching The Art Of Defending A White Collar Criminal Case, Katrice Copeland
Teaching The Art Of Defending A White Collar Criminal Case, Katrice Copeland
Katrice Bridges Copeland
This Article discusses the author's experience with effectively teaching a white collar crime course.
Legal History Meets The Honors Program, Robert Bennett
Legal History Meets The Honors Program, Robert Bennett
Robert B. Bennett
In this article, the author discusses the "Law and Culture" course that he developed to teach in the Butler University Honors Program. The course looks at some landmark periods or events in legal history and explores how those events were the product of their culture, and how they affected their culture. Among the events or periods that the author has looked at in iterations of this course were the survival instinct on display in "Regina v. Dudley and Stephens," the Nuremberg trials, the Scopes Monkey Trial, the modern American litigation explosion, and the events surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court decision …