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Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Can't Get There From Here: Recalculate Into Better Legal Writing, Heather Ridenour

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Trends And Issues In Terrorism And The Law: Foreword, Thomas J. Cleary

University of Massachusetts Law Review

The introduction to the issue discusses the history of UMass Law Review and its contribution to legal scholarship.

College Students And State Voter Id Laws: Can I Vote In The State Where I Attend College? I Have A Student Id Card, Tracey Carter

Law Faculty Scholarship

Presidential debates are purposely held on college campuses because it is well-known that college students are a large voting population who often serve as leaders when it comes to political activism and community involvement. Moreover, when students leave home to attend college, some of them want to vote in their college towns. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1979 landmark decision in Symm v. United States held that students have the constitutional right to register and vote where they attend college. However, despite the Symm’s decision and other constitutional protections, college students also have to be knowledgeable about …

Playing To The Audience, David Spratt

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Tough Love: The Law School That Required Its Students To Learn Good Grammar, Ann Nowak

Touro Law Review

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How Metacognitive Deficiencies Of Law Students Lead To Biased Ratings Of Law Professors, Catherine J. Wasson, Barbara J. Tyler

Touro Law Review

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Legal Education And Civility, Mark Niles

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Sometimes Putting Pen To Paper Is Tougher Than It Seems, Heather Ridenour, David Spratt

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Writer's Block: The "Ins And Outs" Of Good Legal Writing, Part One, David Spratt

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Grooming Good Legal Writers Through Tailored, Constructive Feedback, David Spratt

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Grammar Confidential: Dispelling Common Writing Myths, David Spratt

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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The Blind Leading The Blind: What If They’Re Not All Visual Or Tactile Learners?, Robin A. Boyle, James B. Levy

Faculty Publications

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As legal writing professors, we exalt analysis over intuition and are trained to follow the facts rather than engage in guess-work. We train our students to do the same. Yet when it comes to the pedagogy of legal analysis, we sometimes disregard our training by relying on observations and anecdotal evidence. Specifically, we may be assuming that the vast majority of our students are visual and/or tactile learners because they have grown up using computers, and we see students using computers all the time. Implicit in our assumption is that learning styles are determined by environmental factors alone or …

As A Last Resort, Ask The Students: What They Say Makes Someone An Effective Law Teacher, James B. Levy

Faculty Scholarship

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The Two Hemispheres Of Legal Education And The Rise And Fall Of Local Law Schools, Randolph N. Jonakait

NYLS Law Review

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Preface, Philip Girard

Dalhousie Law Journal

The foreword to the first issue of the Dalhousie Law Journal (September 1973) stated that the editors commenced the enterprise "without lofty pretensions." If the newjournal' s existence served "to encourage creative research and writing among law teachers, among students, and generally among the legal profession and related disciplines, that may be justification." The editors nonetheless concluded with a lofty enough mission statement: "we shall be endeavouring to produce a stimulating journal exemplifying those qualities that most people would characterize as scholarly, among them thoroughness, precision of thought, independence of judgment." The Editorial Board believes that the Journal has fulfilled …

A Writer’S Board And A Student-Run Writing Clinic: Making The Writing Community Visible At Law Schools, Terrill Pollman

Scholarly Works

In this article the author explains institutional programs she has developed in response to a common problem, students’ frustrations with the limits of a law school’s legal writing program. The author proposes establishing a Writers’ Board, where members of the law school community who care most about legal research and writing training can work together to create opportunities for students to learn more. The Writers’ Board’s primary project is a Writing Clinic that offers diverse ways to improve legal research and writing on campus. Despite problems that are likely to arise when creating a Writers’ Board and Clinic, the author …

In Praise Of Student-Edited Law Reviews: A Reply To Professor Dekanal, John Paul Jones

Law Faculty Publications

Prof. Jones responds to a previous writer's arguments that the student-edited law review be replaced by journals edited by law faculty members. He argues that there are not enough willing faculty editors and staff members to sustain the present number and production rate of law journals.

Charting New Territory In Judicial Proof: Beyond Wigmore, Peter Tillers, David Schum

Cardozo Law Review

In this Article, Professor Tillers and Professor Schum investigate judicial proof in a way that combines three distinct methods of analyzing the probative significance of evidence. They call these three modes of analysis legal structuring, temporal structuring, and relational structuring. Although scholars in various disciplines have recognized the importance of these three types of analysis in the assessment of evidence, no extant theory provides a systematic account of the relationships between legal analysis, temporal analysis, and relational analysis. Professor Tillers and Professor Schum describe some of the matters that a three-dimensional analysis of proof must take into account and they …

Address, Harry A. Blackmun

Touro Law Review

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