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The Legal Scholar's Guide Book Reviews, Jamie Abrams
The Legal Scholar's Guide Book Reviews, Jamie Abrams
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Success in law school and in the legal profession often involves mastering and navigating the plethora of unwritten rules and norms that govern institutions and communities. Differences in access to those unwritten rules can privilege and advance some while disadvantaging others. A second-generation law student, for example, is far more likely to know about the professional value of law review than a first-generation law student. Law scholarship is particularly plagued by an insularity that can yield a problematic echo chamber within elite institutions and privileged communities. Thus, the more legal scholarship can be explicitly demystified, taught, and mentored, the more …
From The Editors, Ezra Rosser, Robert Dinerstein
From The Editors, Ezra Rosser, Robert Dinerstein
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For many law professors, the experiences they had as law students often serve as the primary lens through which they make sense of their own students' experiences. Who could doubt the value in connecting with students over the stress of the first legal research and writing memo or over the challenge involved in learning the rule against perpetuities? But the legal academy will surely prosper from learning directly from students themselves. That is where the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) project comes in.