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Collapse Of The Structure Of The Legal Research Universe: The Imperative Of Digital Information, Robert C. Berring
Collapse Of The Structure Of The Legal Research Universe: The Imperative Of Digital Information, Robert C. Berring
Washington Law Review
Legal research, in particular the way in which law schools provide legal research training to first-year law students, is the mom and apple pie issue of legal education. Everyone is willing to criticize the lack of it, praise the importance of it, or discuss the reasons it has not been done so well. After all, the whole corpus of legal education is constructed around Dean Langdell's theory that the law library, the place where the law student conducts research, is the laboratory of the law, and the process of legal research has been intertwined with the process of legal reasoning …
Legal Rearch: A Revised View, J. Christopher Rideout, Jill J. Ramsfield
Legal Rearch: A Revised View, J. Christopher Rideout, Jill J. Ramsfield
Washington Law Review
When Professor Marjorie Dick Rombauer concluded her landmark article twenty years ago, she expressed a hope that many law schools have yet to realize. While legal research and writing programs exist in all law schools, many still have short-term and short-sighted programs. Many, if not most, law students are not rigorously trained, do not experience sustained individualized instruction, and do not explore problem-solving in an environment that simulates either law practice or rigorous legal scholarship. After their first year, most students fend for themselves in an atmosphere that tests their writing abilities in only two of several potential genres—exams and …