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Educating Students About The Critiquing Process In A Lawyering Skills Class, Joel Atlas
Educating Students About The Critiquing Process In A Lawyering Skills Class, Joel Atlas
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The extreme performance anxiety of first-year law students along with the alien experience of receiving copious comments on their writing creates a potent, and potentially paralyzing, potion for stress. With that as a backdrop, lawyering skills teachers ought to educate students about the process of critiquing they will experience in a lawyering skills course.
Helping Students Develop A Humanistic Philosophy Of Lawyering, Beth Cohen
Helping Students Develop A Humanistic Philosophy Of Lawyering, Beth Cohen
Faculty Scholarship
This Article considers the need to help students develop a cohesive philosophy of lawyering and suggests some ideas and methods to help introduce these concepts and concerns to students. Although this Article focuses primarily on aspects of the legal research and writing curriculum and pedagogy as well as professional development programs that can enhance the curriculum, the concepts are applicable and transferable to other subjects and courses. The purpose of this Article is to explore the issues raised by a conscious decision to help students consider and develop a beneficial philosophy of lawyering in areas including the development of legal …