by What Law Schools Must Change to Train Transactional Lawyers by Stephanie Hunter McMahon Abstract Not all lawyers litigate, but you would not know that from the first-year curriculum at most law schools. Despite 50% of lawyers working in transactional…
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A Companion to Torts: Learning to Think Like a Torts Lawyer by Doing Exercises: Sample Chapter
A Companion to Torts: Learning to Think Like a Torts Lawyer by Doing Exercises Chapter Three by E. Scott Fruehwald. I have put a sample chapter from my torts book on SSRN. (Scott Fruehwald)
Second Edition: A Companion to Torts: Learning to Think Like a Torts Lawyer by Doing Exercises by E. Scott Fruehwald
Second Edition: A Companion to Torts: Learning to Think Like a Torts Lawyer by Doing Exercises by E. Scott Fruehwald. I have just published a second edition of my book, A Companion to Torts. I wrote this second edition mainly…
Studying Effectively and Life-Long Learning
Daniel Willingham has a great article on studying effectively and life-long learning in the NY Times. There Are Better Ways to Study That Will Last You a Lifetime “But as your child gets older, he’ll increasingly be expected to teach…
Important Article on Developing Case Reading Skills
Getting It Right From the Start by Jane Grise & Dorothy Evensen. Abstract For over 150 years, law professors have used the case method, which presumes that students arrive at law school with the capacity to closely read and analyze…
Commentary: How to Help Blacks and Other Minorities Improve their Bar Passage Rates
The TaxProf Blog recently reported a shocking disparity for first-time bar pass rates between Whites and Blacks in 2022: 83% for Whites and 57% for Blacks (26 points). This disparity cannot continue. The only way for law schools to alleviate…
Why I Wrote Think Like A Lawyer by Scott Fruehwald
In 2020, I issued a new edition of my book How to Think Like A Lawyer: Legal Reasoning for Law Students and Business Professionals. In this post, I will relate why I wrote this book, and how this book can…
Robert R. Kuehn (Wash U) & David A. Santacroce (Mich.), An Empirical Analysis of Clinical Legal Education at Middle Age
Robert R. Kuehn (Wash U) & David A. Santacroce (Mich.), An Empirical Analysis of Clinical Legal Education at Middle Age. Abstract This article provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of clinical legal education’s development and growth over the past fifty…
CUNY School of Law faces state probe over anti-Jewish bias after BDS support
CUNY School of Law faces state probe over anti-Jewish bias after BDS support. “The state Division of Human Rights has opened a bombshell probe into whether CUNY’s School of Law discriminated against Jews when its faculty council passed a resolution…
Critical Thinking and Sources
One aspect of critical thinking is critically evaluating one’s sources. Don’t cite a source just because it says what you want it to say. What sources does your source cite? How reliable are those sources? Do sources disagree with your…