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A Reflection Of My Law School Experience, Melissa A. Trinos
A Reflection Of My Law School Experience, Melissa A. Trinos
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
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A Reflection Of My Law School Experience, Sasha Tinis
A Reflection Of My Law School Experience, Sasha Tinis
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
No abstract provided.
A Reflection Of My Law School Experience, Nicole Spencer
A Reflection Of My Law School Experience, Nicole Spencer
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
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Reflection Of My Law School Experience, Mayerline Rossi
Reflection Of My Law School Experience, Mayerline Rossi
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
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A Reflection Upon My First Year Of Law School, Beth Gazes
A Reflection Upon My First Year Of Law School, Beth Gazes
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
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My First Year Of Law School, Kimberly-Ann Cruz
My First Year Of Law School, Kimberly-Ann Cruz
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
No abstract provided.
My 1l Experience: Felt Like I Was Running A Marathon Going At A Hundred Miles An Hour, Louis Collins
My 1l Experience: Felt Like I Was Running A Marathon Going At A Hundred Miles An Hour, Louis Collins
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
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Hindsight Is Twenty-Twenty, Shanna L. Butler
Hindsight Is Twenty-Twenty, Shanna L. Butler
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
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My 1l Experience, Izolda Aliyeva
My 1l Experience, Izolda Aliyeva
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
No abstract provided.
Our Story, Denisse Mira
Train Wrecks: 3m National Teaching Fellows Explore Creating Learning And Generative Responses From Colossal Failures, William B. Strean, Patrick T. Maher, Kim Brooks
Train Wrecks: 3m National Teaching Fellows Explore Creating Learning And Generative Responses From Colossal Failures, William B. Strean, Patrick T. Maher, Kim Brooks
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
We all fail. We also like to look good and avoid looking bad. So, even though we know that taking risks and trying new approaches are important for enhancing our teaching and students’ learning (Strean, 2017), we rarely talk about our failures. Our claim in this paper is that our insecurities create a substantial barrier to improving and enriching our teaching practices. If we do not find time to take big risks, and then to explore and critically reflect on failures that result sometimes from those risks, we lose out on the chance to become better teachers; more fundamentally, we …
Exploring Diversity With A "Culture Box" In First-Year Legal Writing, Ann N. Sinsheimer
Exploring Diversity With A "Culture Box" In First-Year Legal Writing, Ann N. Sinsheimer
Articles
Studying law is in many ways like studying another culture. Students often feel as though they are learning a new language with unfamiliar vocabulary and different styles of communication. Throughout their legal education, students are also exposed to a profession comprised of unique traditions and expectations. As a result, learning law takes time and energy. It can be both engaging and frustrating and may even challenge some of students’ values and belief systems. To ease her students’ transition to law school, the author starts her course each year with a “culture box” exercise, which encourages students to examine who they …
A Study Of The Relationship Between Law School Coursework And Bar Exam Outcomes, Robert R. Kuehn
A Study Of The Relationship Between Law School Coursework And Bar Exam Outcomes, Robert R. Kuehn
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The recent decline in bar exam passage rates has triggered speculation that the decline is being driven by law students taking more experiential courses and fewer bar-subject courses. These concerns arose in the absence of any empirical study linking certain coursework to bar exam failure.
This article addresses speculation about the relationship between law school coursework and bar exam outcomes. It reports the results of a large-scale study of the courses of over 3800 graduates from two law schools and the relationship between their experiential and bar-subject coursework and bar exam outcomes over a ten-year period. At both schools, the …