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A Call For Strengthening The Role Of Comparative Legal Analysis In The United States, Irene Calboli
A Call For Strengthening The Role Of Comparative Legal Analysis In The United States, Irene Calboli
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This Essay highlights the importance of comparative legal analysis with particular emphasis on the role that this methodology could play for intellectual property scholarship in the United States. In particular, this Essay suggests that U.S. scholars could consider turning with more frequency to comparative legal analysis as an additional methodology to use in their research. Yet, the objective of this Essay is not to suggest that U.S. scholars should engage in comparative legal analysis in lieu of other types of research methodologies. Instead, this Essay simply supports that comparative legal analysis could play a larger role compared to the one …
The Structured Writing Group: A Different Writing Center?, Brian N. Larson, Christopher Soper
The Structured Writing Group: A Different Writing Center?, Brian N. Larson, Christopher Soper
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This article describes the objectives, development, and some preliminary results of a program the authors led at the University of Minnesota Law School in academic year 2014-15. They wanted the “Structured Writing Group” (SWG) project to achieve some outcomes traditionally associated with writing centers: first, improving the student writing process by facilitating collaboration with a writing expert; and second, exposing students to additional audiences for their writing. We added a third goal of improving the experience and performance of multilingual students in the legal writing program.