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Law Students' Commitment Benefits Everyone - A View On Law Student Participation, Pamela Daiker-Middaugh
Law Students' Commitment Benefits Everyone - A View On Law Student Participation, Pamela Daiker-Middaugh
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Describes the value of law students participating in pro-bono and volunteer opportunities.
Innovative Teaching Methods And Practical Uses Of Literature In Legal Education, Karin M. Mika
Innovative Teaching Methods And Practical Uses Of Literature In Legal Education, Karin M. Mika
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Because I believe a breadth of reading enhances one's ability to think and write, throughout the years I have tried to encourage extra curricular and diversified reading to be done in conjunction with my Legal Writing class. Unfortunately, yet understandably, law students generally only do the required work, but not more. As a consequence, I have discovered, over time, that the "readers" in my classes continue to read while the "non-readers" never take the opportunity to discover what advantage there might be in taking my advice. Because no change has occurred in students' overall attitudes, I decided to make life …
Tell Me A Story: Using Short Fiction In Teaching Law And Bioethics, Dena S. Davis
Tell Me A Story: Using Short Fiction In Teaching Law And Bioethics, Dena S. Davis
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
For some years now, I have been experimenting with the use of short stories. Despite rich resources for stories, there remains a void best filled by fiction. When discussing fiction, we can probe, criticize, and express ourselves freely without the constraints we feel when discussing real people. Good fiction lays bare the innermost thoughts and experiences of its characters, perhaps even their dreams and nightmares, in a way that would be intrusive, uncomfortable, or impossible, even in autobiography. When the entire class reads a short story, it provides a pool of shared experience, a fixed point for discussion. Just as …