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Integration & Transformation: Incorporating Critical Information Literacy And Critical Legal Research Into Advanced Legal Research Instruction, Courtney Selby
Integration & Transformation: Incorporating Critical Information Literacy And Critical Legal Research Into Advanced Legal Research Instruction, Courtney Selby
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Legal research is not a separate and distinct endeavor from legal analysis and advocacy. These activities are inextricably intertwined in the practice of law. Few would suggest that advocacy includes the process of applying rules to situations in a vacuum without reference to context and consequences. Yet we often see this assumption about the legal research process. Many students presume that conducting legal research is a neutral endeavor, and that when done properly, it delivers the universe of relevant authorities to the researcher. This essay is about my experience integrating critical perspectives into an existing advanced legal research course …
The Blind Leading The Blind: What If They’Re Not All Visual Or Tactile Learners?, Robin A. Boyle, James B. Levy
The Blind Leading The Blind: What If They’Re Not All Visual Or Tactile Learners?, Robin A. Boyle, James B. Levy
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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 …