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Mind The Gaps: Teaching Students To Address Flaws In Their Analysis, Christopher R. Trudeau

Christopher R Trudeau

A main problem for law students is that they make too many logical assumptions – or logical leaps, as I call them – in their analysis. Generally, students tend to do two things. First, students leave gaps in their law; that is, students fail to fully develop the law, define key terms, and use analogy to past cases to help bolster their arguments. Second, some students leave gaps in their application – they assume the reader knows the facts, so they don’t explain things to the reader.This presentation explores various techniques used to teach students to find and fill gaps …