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Teaching Legal Reasoning In Law School, Peter N. Swisher
Teaching Legal Reasoning In Law School, Peter N. Swisher
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With the understanding that reasonable scholars and critics may differ, it is nevertheless this article's contention that law schools today must still strive to teach the basic logical principles-and process-of legal reasoning. By analogy, a swimmer must learn at least a few basic strokes in order to survive in his new environment. The same is true with law students and legal reasoning. An elementary foundation in legal reasoning skills, limited though it may be, is still better than nothing at all-especially when the latter alternative offers only confusion and misunderstanding.
The purpose of this article is to discuss one such …