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Mind The Gap: Teaching Research As A Fluid, Ever-Present Concept In The First-Year Legal Research And Writing Classroom, 66 Mercer L. Rev. 651 (2015), Julie M. Spanbauer Jan 2015

Mind The Gap: Teaching Research As A Fluid, Ever-Present Concept In The First-Year Legal Research And Writing Classroom, 66 Mercer L. Rev. 651 (2015), Julie M. Spanbauer

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

This Article presents a brief summary of the available research on those students who have used computers throughout their entire educational careers, including their strengths, their weaknesses, and how they differ from their instructors-many of whom did not use computers to any significant degree for research during college and law school. This Article asserts that these differences are cultural and argues that, in the interest of better educating and preparing our students to become lifelong learners who are equipped to self-assess their research, law school teachers must adjust their teaching styles to not only teach to these students' strengths and …


The Law And 3d Printing, 31 J. Marshall J. Info. Tech. & Privacy L. 505 (2015), Jasper Tran Jan 2015

The Law And 3d Printing, 31 J. Marshall J. Info. Tech. & Privacy L. 505 (2015), Jasper Tran

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

Recent years have seen extraordinary growth in the amount of legal scholarship and practice at the intersection of law and 3D printing. To help navigate this emerging field of 3D printing law, I created the accompanying Law and 3D Printing Bibliography. The published bibliography presented herein contains over 100 entries. The brief introductory comments to the published piece discuss the creation and contents of the bibliography, and provide suggestions for where one should begin their research in the area. The comments focus on (1) 3D printing‘s background, (2) historical growth pattern of law and 3D printing scholarship, (3) identification of …


Summing It Up With Panache: Framing A Brief's Summary Of The Argument, 48 J. Marshall L. Rev. 991 (2015), Judith Fischer Jan 2015

Summing It Up With Panache: Framing A Brief's Summary Of The Argument, 48 J. Marshall L. Rev. 991 (2015), Judith Fischer

UIC Law Review

Experts have called an appellate brief’s summary of the argument section “the most important part of a brief,” its “structural centerpiece,” and “your first serious opportunity to argue the merits of your appeal.” Two theories, framing theory and priming theory, help explain why the summary is so important. Framing theorists define a frame as a mental structure that provides a lens through which a recipient will “locate, perceive, identify, and label” an experience. The way a point is framed affects what readers focus on when forming their opinions. A similar concept, priming theory, holds that exposing a reader to chosen …