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Help Me, Help You: What You Should Know Before You Ask For Help, Meredith A.G. Stange
Help Me, Help You: What You Should Know Before You Ask For Help, Meredith A.G. Stange
College of Law Faculty Publications
I got an email the other day from a student who was having some difficulty writing his arguments. The student wrote that he kept rewriting his arguments in response to my comments but that he still had not been able to get them written satisfactorily. I could tell the student was frustrated and I could also tell that, for the moment, at least, I was the target of that frustration. Essentially, the student was telling me that he had changed things in accordance with my comments, but I still was not happy. Having been teaching for fifteen years, the frustration …
Law Students Lie And Other Practical Information For First-Year Students, Meredith A.G. Stange
Law Students Lie And Other Practical Information For First-Year Students, Meredith A.G. Stange
College of Law Faculty Publications
The first thing I tell students, and the piece of information they most often remember, is something that took me nearly my entire first year of law school to figure out: Law students lie. I do not mean that all law students are duplicitous, manipulative individuals. Not at all. Law students lie about things that only law students care about, like how many pages their outlines are, when they started outlining, and how far ahead they are in their readings for class. These may sound like dumb things to lie about but, as I am sure we all recall only …