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On-Line Legal Research Workshops, Frederick B. Jonassen

Frederick B. Jonassen

Like riding a bicycle, playing tennis, or driving a car, legal research is a skill, and like any other skill it is learned by doing and not by listening to a lecture, though lectures are indispensable for introducing the skill. The mental processes applied in electronic legal research may differ from those applied to book legal research, but because both electronic and book research are skills, a guided workshop in electronic legal research may be based on similar principles to that underlying a workshop in book legal research with appropriate modifications.

The aspects of the electronic legal workshop proposed here …

Free Speech And Establishment Clause Rights At Public School Graduation Ceremonies: A Disclaimer: The Preceding Speech Was Government Censored And Does Not Represent The Views Of The Valedictorian, Frederick B. Jonassen

Frederick B. Jonassen

Free Speech and Establishment Clause Rights at Public School Graduation Ceremonies: A Disclaimer: The Preceding Speech Was Government Censored and Does Not Represent the Views of the Valedictorian By Frederick B. Jonassen This paper focuses on the valedictorian speech at public school graduation ceremonies. There are two cases pending in federal court in which valedictorians have included religious expression in their speeches without the permission of school authorities. In one instance, school officials cut off the valedictorian’s microphone; in the other, the principal allegedly refused to issue a diploma to the valedictorian unless she agreed to apologize for her speech. …