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Law Student Laptop Use In Class For Non-Class Purposes: Temptation V. Incentives, Jeff Sovern
Law Student Laptop Use In Class For Non-Class Purposes: Temptation V. Incentives, Jeff Sovern
Jeff Sovern
LAW STUDENT LAPTOP USE DURING CLASS FOR NON-CLASS PURPOSES: TEMPTATION v. INCENTIVES Jeff Sovern St. John’s University School of Law This article reports on how law students use laptops, based on observations of 1072 laptop users (though there was considerable overlap among those users from one class to another) during 60 sessions of six law school courses. Some findings: • More than half the upper-year students seen using laptops employed them for non-class purposes more than half the time, raising serious questions about how much they learned from class. By contrast, first-semester Civil Procedure students used laptops for non-class purposes …
Law Student Laptop Use During Class For Non-Class Purposes: Temptation V. Incentives, Jeff Sovern
Law Student Laptop Use During Class For Non-Class Purposes: Temptation V. Incentives, Jeff Sovern
Jeff Sovern
ABSTRACT LAW STUDENT LAPTOP USE DURING CLASS FOR NON-CLASS PURPOSES: TEMPTATION v. INCENTIVES Jeff Sovern St. John’s University School of Law This article reports on how law students use laptops, based on observations of 1072 laptop users (though there was considerable overlap among those users from one class to another) during 60 sessions of six law school courses. Some findings: • More than half the upper-year students seen using laptops employed them for non-class purposes more than half the time, raising serious questions about how much they learned from class. By contrast, first-semester Civil Procedure students used laptops for non-class …
Rankings: A Dramatization Of The Incentives Created By Ranking Law Schools, Jeff Sovern
Rankings: A Dramatization Of The Incentives Created By Ranking Law Schools, Jeff Sovern
Jeff Sovern
Rankings: A Dramatization of the Incentives Created by Ranking Law Schools Sellers in a competitive market shift resources from attributes buyers don't care about to attributes buyers do care about. In markets in which buyers rely on imperfect signals for quality, sellers move resources away from improving the quality of their product to enhancing the illusion of quality. For example, before freshness dating, when consumers tested the freshness of bread by squeezing it, bakers reportedly added chemicals to bread to preserve its softness longer, thereby creating the illusion of freshness. Similarly, law school rankings encourage schools to shift resources away …
Rankings: A Dramatization Of The Incentives Created By Ranking Law Schools, Jeff Sovern
Rankings: A Dramatization Of The Incentives Created By Ranking Law Schools, Jeff Sovern
Jeff Sovern
Rankings: A Dramatization of the Incentives Created by Ranking Law Schools Sellers in a competitive market shift resources from attributes buyers don't care about to attributes buyers do care about. In markets in which buyers rely on imperfect signals for quality, sellers move resources away from improving the quality of their product to enhancing the illusion of quality. For example, before freshness dating, when consumers tested the freshness of bread by squeezing it, bakers reportedly added chemicals to bread to preserve its softness longer, thereby creating the illusion of freshness. Similarly, law school rankings encourage schools to shift resources away …