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Legal Reading And Success In Law School: The Reading Strategies Of Law Students With Attention Deficit Disorder (Add)., Leah M. Christensen Dec 2010

Legal Reading And Success In Law School: The Reading Strategies Of Law Students With Attention Deficit Disorder (Add)., Leah M. Christensen

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

The new reality in legal education is that a certain percentage of our students will come to us with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or with another learning disability, either disclosed or undisclosed. Yet there has been little empirical research on how law students with learning disabilities read and understand the law. This study examines how three law students with ADD read a judicial opinion. The results suggest a relationship between successful law school performance and the use of problematizing and rhetorical reading strategies, and between less successful law school performance and the use of default reading strategies. Further, the results …


A "Sending Down" Sabbatical: The Benefits Of Lawyering In The Legal Services Trenches, Suzanne Rabe, Stephen A. Rosenbaum Nov 2010

A "Sending Down" Sabbatical: The Benefits Of Lawyering In The Legal Services Trenches, Suzanne Rabe, Stephen A. Rosenbaum

Journal of Legal Education

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Conceptualizing Disability Discrimination, Michael C. Harper May 2010

Conceptualizing Disability Discrimination, Michael C. Harper

Faculty Scholarship

In a series of law review articles written over the past decade, Professor Bagenstos has established himself as the preeminent academic voice on disability discrimination law. Indeed, the transferable utility of the conceptual insights developed and applied in these articles, in my view, warrants a claim for Bagenstos as the most important scholar of the decade in the general field of employment discrimination law. Anyone with a serious intellectual interest in discrimination law who has not read Bagenstos’s articles should take the occasion of the publication of this pithy and trenchant little volume to familiarize themselves with Bagenstos’s analysis of …


Thirteen Ways Of Looking At Buck V. Bell: Thoughts Occasioned By Paul Lombardo's Three Generations, No Imbeciles, Michelle Oberman Feb 2010

Thirteen Ways Of Looking At Buck V. Bell: Thoughts Occasioned By Paul Lombardo's Three Generations, No Imbeciles, Michelle Oberman

Journal of Legal Education

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Is There An Unreasonable Accommodation? Is There A Due Hardship?, Alex B. Long Jan 2010

Is There An Unreasonable Accommodation? Is There A Due Hardship?, Alex B. Long

Scholarly Works

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