All Articles tagged first year

• Articles
  February 15, 2024 EDT
  Designing Problems to Enhance Student Learning
  Elizabeth E. Berenguer

  Framing problem-design discourse around rule structure aligns the problem with a professor's pedagogical goals.

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• Essays
  March 01, 2023 EDT
  Using Intention-Setting Practices to Increase Student Engagement in the First-Year Legal Writing Classroom
  Angela B. Debush

  Professors can use intention-setting practices to shift the traditional top-down classroom dynamics that leave some students feeling overwhelmed or disengaged.

• Essays
  March 01, 2019 EDT
  A Unique Approach to First-Year Problems: Combining Substantive Claims with Professional Responsibility Issues
  Robin C. Konrad

  Students’ legal-writing experience would be enriched by having the opportunity to not only learn substantive law but also to delve into ethical issues.

• Articles
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  Take a (Cognitive) Load Off: Creating Space to Allow First-Year Legal Writing Students to Focus on Analytical and Writing Processes
  Terri L. EnnsMonte Smith

  How does cognitive load impede first-year law students’ ability to learn analytical and writing processes at the same time that they produce written analysis?

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• Articles
  March 01, 2012 EDT
  Escaping the Appellate Litigation Straitjacket: Incorporating an Alternative Dispute Resolution Simulation into a First-Year Legal Writing Class
  Mary DunnewoldMary Trevor

  How can the first-year Legal Research and Writing curriculum incorporate ADR concepts?

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• Articles
  March 01, 2011 EDT
  Integrating Doctrine and Skills in First-Year Courses: A Transactional Attorney’s Experience
  Celeste M. Hammond

  For students to realize the significance of transactional practice, they need to encounter the model in their first year of law school.

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• Articles
  March 01, 2011 EDT
  Teaching After Dark: Evening Students and the First-Year Legal Research & Writing Classroom
  Bonny L. TavaresRebecca L. Scalio

  Law professors and law school administrators must ensure that part-time J.D. programs adapt, improve, and respond to the needs of our students.

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• Articles
  March 01, 2006 EDT
  Using a Literary Case Study to Teach Lawyering Skills: How We Used Damages by Barry Werth in the First-Year Legal Writing Curriculum
  Jeanne KaiserMyra Orlen

  This Article details our use of Damages in the first-year legal research and writing program at our school.

• Articles
  March 01, 1999 EDT
  Teaching First-Semester Students that Objective Analysis Persuades
  Julie Spanbauer

  Legal writing courses should stop pitting objective writing against persuasive writing by creating a false dichotomy between them.

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• Articles
  March 01, 1998 EDT
  Ethical Considerations in Advocacy: What First-Year Legal Writing Students Need to Know
  Beverly J. Blair

  The new role for the legal writer as an advocate demands candor, honesty and credibility with the court.

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• Articles
  March 01, 1997 EDT
  Using Examinations in First-Year Legal Research, Writing, and Reasoning Courses
  Douglas Miller

  Legal writing courses rarely use exams. Maybe they should.