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Fostering Student Authorship, Amy R. Mashburn, Sharon E. Rush
Fostering Student Authorship, Amy R. Mashburn, Sharon E. Rush
UF Law Faculty Publications
In this essay, we suggest that law schools may provide every student with the opportunity to become involved in the process of producing a publishable paper by establishing on-line repositories for student publications. We describe what such a program, which we call "student authorship," might look like and further explore several primary benefits that such a program would confer upon students.
Disciplining Legal Scholarship, Lynn M. Lopucki
Disciplining Legal Scholarship, Lynn M. Lopucki
UF Law Faculty Publications
U.S. law schools are hiring large proportions of J.D.-Ph.D.s in tenure-track faculty positions in an effort to increase the quantity and quality of empirical legal scholarship. That effort is failing. The new recruits bring methods and objectives unsuited to law. They produce lower-than-predicted levels of empiricism because they compete on the basis of methodological sophistication, devote time and resources to disputes over arcane issues in statistics and methodology, prefer to collaborate with other Ph.D.s, and intimidate empiricists whose work does not require high levels of methodological sophistication. In short, Ph.D.s impose the cultures of their disciplines on legal scholarship. Importing …
Stop Me If You’Ve Heard This Before: Transitions In Teaching Legal Research, Patricia Morgan
Stop Me If You’Ve Heard This Before: Transitions In Teaching Legal Research, Patricia Morgan
UF Law Faculty Publications
Law schools are being called upon to produce more “practice ready” graduates. To that end, the University of Florida added a librarian-taught first-year Legal Research course to its curriculum. As a result of the course addition, there was an impact on the existing Advanced Legal Research (ALR) course. For the first time, the ALR students had already received legal research instruction. This required adjustments in this higher level course.
The Law Review Article Selection Process: Results From A National Study, Jason P. Nance, Dylan J. Steinberg
The Law Review Article Selection Process: Results From A National Study, Jason P. Nance, Dylan J. Steinberg
UF Law Faculty Publications
The student-edited law review has been a much criticized institution. Many commentators have expressed their belief that students are unqualified to determine which articles should be published in which journals, but these discussions have been largely based on anecdotal evidence of how journals make publication decisions. It was against that backdrop that we undertook a national survey of law reviews in an attempt to determine how student editors responsible for making publication decisions went about their task. This article compiles the results of that survey, which received 191 responses from 163 different journals. We analyzed 56 factors that influence the …