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Deo, Meera Eknath – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Although many Americans turn to education as a means of generating social equality, institutions of higher learning themselves remain internally stratified, with students of color often having different experiences and sometimes attaining lower academic outcomes than whites. Law schools are especially notable for their intensely competitive…
Descriptors: Law Students, Race, Law Schools, Focus Groups
Law School Survey of Student Engagement, 2008
The Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) documents dimensions of quality in legal education and provides information about law student participation in effective educational activities that law schools and other organizations can use to improve student learning. The insights into the law school student experience reported in this study…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Law Students, Law Schools, Student Participation
Nicholls, Emma; Walsh, Margaret – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: This case study aims to provide a critical evaluation of the decision by the University of Wolverhampton's School of Legal Studies to develop a number of work-based learning modules, offered as part of the undergraduate programme. It seeks to examine why the School has taken the approach of embedding work-based learning into what has…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Learning Modules, Criticism, Law Students
Niehoff, Leonard M. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
Teaching legal ethics can be a difficult job, as students often come to the course thinking it will be a waste of time--either because they believe it is impossible to find provably correct answers to ethical problems, or because they think that the answers are obvious. This attitude prevents a collection of challenges: the teacher must engage…
Descriptors: Law Students, Ethics, Legal Education (Professions), Lawyers
Mangan, Katherine – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Because today's students are used to a culture of informality, they sometimes show a lack of respect for authority. This article details a workshop presented by two professors from Drake University Law School to educate law students on professionalism and courtesy. Their workshop touched on topics such as public versus private communications and…
Descriptors: Workshops, Law Students, Law Schools, Legal Education (Professions)

Dowling, William D.; And Others – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 1989
From one person's experience as an adult law student, the authors draw implications for the practice of adult education. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Law Students, Older Adults, Personal Narratives
McKinley, Robert – 1993
A study was conducted to examine patterns of test preparation for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) during the 1990-1991 testing year. This represented an extension of an earlier study that examined self-report test preparation methods for the June and October 1989 test administrations. In this study, five types of analysis were performed: (1)…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Law Schools, Law Students, Study
Breland, Hunter M.; Hart, Frederick M. – 1994
This study examined legal writing as it was represented in legal memoranda prepared by first-semester law students at 12 different law schools. The study was based on the cumulative judgments of the instructors and professors of law in those institutions, humanities specialists at the Educational Testing Service, and two legal consultants. A…
Descriptors: Definitions, Higher Education, Law Schools, Law Students

Gulati, Mitu; Sander, Richard; Sockloskie, Robert – Journal of Legal Education, 2001
Used survey data to assess the third-year experience of law students. Found that most students were disengaged but satisfied and optimistic; a much smaller group felt alienated. Proposes some legal education reforms. (EV)
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Law Students, Legal Education (Professions), Student Experience
Kane, Mary Kay – AALL Spectrum, 2001
Describes some of the major pressures and challenges facing law schools today and their responses. Explores trends in the areas of student body composition, affirmative action, finances, student debt, technology, internationalization of the curriculum, and faculty scholarship. (EV)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Law Schools, Law Students, Legal Education (Professions)
Schmitz, Suzanne J. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
Although Sir William Blackstone would not have known if he had been lecturing to students with learning disabilities, today's law professors are. Law schools are legally required to accommodate students with learning disabilities unless the requested accommodation would alter the fundamental nature of the program. Courts give great deference to…
Descriptors: Law Students, Learning Disabilities, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Law Schools
Sipe, Stephanie R. – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2007
The Enron scandal has been described as "the corporate scandal of the century." Books have been written about it, its full-length documentary film was nominated for an Academy Award, it appears as an ethical case study in nearly every college business law textbook written since 2002, and for five years running, it has captivated the…
Descriptors: Documentaries, Ethics, Business Education, Teaching Methods
Khawaja, Nigar G.; Duncanson, Krystle – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2008
Depression is a problem in the student population and may impact students of any age, gender and ethnicity. Previous studies have indicated student demographic characteristics are associated with depression; however, these studies have not utilised scales specifically designed to measure depression in the student population. The aim of the present…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Measures (Individuals), College Students, Gender Differences
Nadolski, Rob J.; Kirschner, Paul A.; van Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G. – Learning and Instruction, 2006
Whole tasks for acquiring complex skills are often too difficult for novices. To solve this problem, "process support" divides the problem solving into phases, offers driving questions, and provides feedback. A multimedia program was used to teach sophomore law students ("N"=82) to prepare and carry out a plea. In a randomised 2x2 design with the…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Learning Processes, Legal Education (Professions), Problem Solving

Winfree, L. Thomas, Jr.; And Others – Work and Occupations: An International Sociological Journal, 1984
In a study of the organizational socialization of law school interns, the authors observed that some of the students were assimilated quickly and completely into the role of prosecutor, while others were less socialized. The authors believe that the organizational structure and level of control exercised over the interns accounted for these…
Descriptors: Law Schools, Law Students, Postsecondary Education, Professional Education