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Deals Or No Deals: Integrating Transactional Skills In The First Year Curriculum, Lynnise E. Pantin
Deals Or No Deals: Integrating Transactional Skills In The First Year Curriculum, Lynnise E. Pantin
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This article joins a growing body of scholarship on the pedagogy of transactional law and skills. This article challenges the traditional pedagogy of teaching law students to think like a lawyer and argues that law schools should shift the analytical framework of a litigation-dominated model, which is typically taught in the first year, to a model that incorporates transactional skills teaching into the first year law school curriculum. This approach will (1) create a greater balance of skills taught in the first year and (2) address the mandate to train more practice-ready lawyers. This article argues that the best place …
The First Year: Integrating Transactional Skills, Lynnise E. Pantin
The First Year: Integrating Transactional Skills, Lynnise E. Pantin
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My name is Lynnise Pantin. I teach at New York Law School, and my talk today focuses on integrating transactional skills into the first-year curriculum.
As a first premise, the law school curriculum is dominated by litigation oriented skills, and I can argue that there is a litigation bias that is pervasive in legal education. I am hoping that, by engaging with those of you who teach first year students, we can start to talk about creating and developing transactional skills within a context that is already there in the first-year curriculum.