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Tweets To A Young 1l, Rachel I. Gurvich
Tweets To A Young 1l, Rachel I. Gurvich
Faculty Publications
A series of eleven tweets ruminating about the author's law school experience received a positive and enthusiastic response from many lawyers, law professors, and law students, and ultimately caught the eye of one of the Green Bag’s editors. This short piece unpacks and contextualizes those tweets. The original tweets appear below, numbered as they first appeared on Twitter.
Green Bag Cataloging Trivia, Aaron S. Kirschenfeld
Green Bag Cataloging Trivia, Aaron S. Kirschenfeld
Faculty Publications
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Citation Literacy, Alexa Z. Chew
Citation Literacy, Alexa Z. Chew
Working Papers
New lawyers and law students spend a lot of time worrying about legal citation. But most of that time is spent worrying about the wrong thing—formatting. The primary purpose of legal citation is to communicate information to the reader. Thus, legal citations are integral parts of the legal documents that lawyers read and write. But rather than viewing citation as communication, law students, and the new lawyers they become, tend to view it as a formatting sideshow dictated by the Bluebook or other citation style guides. This view is both inaccurate and counterproductive.
I argue that the reason for this …
Framing Failure In The Legal Classroom: Techniques For Encouraging Growth And Resilience, Kaci Bishop
Framing Failure In The Legal Classroom: Techniques For Encouraging Growth And Resilience, Kaci Bishop
Working Papers
This Article argues that law schools should endeavor to help students maximize their learning and their potential as attorneys by helping them accept and learn from failure.