What Predicts Law Student Success? A Longitudinal Study Correlating Law Student Applicant Data and Law School Outcomes

<p align="JUSTIFY">For almost seven years, Street Law has been a part of the curriculum of the Prague Law School. Over the years, law students have taught law at public and private grammar schools, high schools, business schools and also some vocational schools, mostly located in the Prague region. They were all secondary schools and predominantly ethnically homogenous, since members of the largest Czech minority, the Roma, for various reasons hardly ever attend these schools. Last summer, however, a group of Prague Law School students and recent graduates travelled to Eastern Slovakia to organize Street Law workshops for Roma teenagers. This text tells the story of their journey, reflects their teaching methodology and experience and offers a perspective of a law student participating in the workshops.</p>

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Educational Debt and Law Student Failure to Enter Public Service Careers: Bringing Empirical Data to Bear

Law & Social Inquiry ◽

10.1111/j.1747-4469.2006.00026.x ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 31 (03) ◽

pp. 677-708 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Christa McGill

Keyword(s):

Public Service ◽

Law School ◽

Law Students ◽

Short Supply ◽

Individual Level ◽

Debt Burden ◽

Student Failure ◽

Level Data ◽

Law School Graduates ◽

Law Student

It is frequently suggested that law school debt is preventing new law school graduates from entering public service careers. The basis for this contention is largely anecdotal, however. This study puts the presumption to empirical scrutiny. Aggregate data from law schools and individual-level data from law students both point to the same conclusion: law students may indeed be competing in a money chase, but it is not because of their indebtedness. Private firms with prestige and high salaries are appealing to many students regardless of their debt burden. And government and public interest jobs may be in too short supply to meet the demand of non-elite students who are essentially closed out of the high-paying jobs in larger firms. The biggest barrier between these students and public service jobs may be the lack of supply of these jobs, not the lack of demand for them.

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Learning to be A Peacemaking Lawyer: Law Student Perspectives on Building Peacemaking into Law School Curricula, Building Paths to Practice for New Lawyers, and Interdisciplinary Training

Family Court Review ◽

10.1111/fcre.12182 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 53 (4) ◽

pp. 526-544

Author(s):

Matthew Zeidel ◽

Sandy Yu ◽

Sara Zerehi

Keyword(s):

Student Perspectives ◽

Law School ◽

Interdisciplinary Training ◽

Law Student ◽

School Curricula

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Taking Clinical Legal Education from Classrooms to Streets: A Practical Perspective to Solving Social Problems

Asian Journal of Legal Education ◽

10.1177/2322005818768683 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 137-151

Author(s):

Cosmos Nike Nwedu

Keyword(s):

Legal Education ◽

Law School ◽

Court System ◽

School Students ◽

Analytical Perspective ◽

Critical Issues ◽

New Ideas ◽

Law Student ◽

Education Justice ◽

Law School Students

Whenever the discourse of clinical legal education (CLE) ascends, the likely injudicious assumption that may come to one’s mind, especially of a layman is that, it concerns only classroom or clinically confined pedagogy marked by simulations; in-house law student learning activities that end up with their regular experiences of the learning processes. However, CLE in reality, beyond parochial thinking is a socio-legal justice tool for addressing motley challenges of humanity particularly those that confront poverty-stricken and vulnerable citizens who are always undid from equal opportunities and access to the court system. Thus, this article argues that CLE transcends what goes on in typical classrooms or law clinics. The article explores different realistic clinical legal education justice initiatives (CLEJIs) that university and law school students can work with in fostering social justice in a wider societal context. To achieve this purpose, the article considers a rethink of the concept of CLE to capture its historical rationales against definitional setback offered by some authors. It further highlights some critical issues indispensable for the sustainability of CLE initiatives around the world. While the argument of this study draws upon existing findings, it presents new ideas achieved through synthesis of thinking in a qualitatively analytical perspective.

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A Library Credit Course and Student Success Rates: A Longitudinal Study

College & Research Libraries ◽

10.5860/crl12-424 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 75 (3) ◽

pp. 272-283 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Jean Marie Cook

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Student Success ◽

Graduation Rates ◽

Test Scores ◽

Success Rates ◽

Aptitude Test ◽

The University

The University of West Georgia’s Ingram Library has offered a fifteen-week two-hour credit course since 1998. In a longitudinal study covering twelve years, the library analyzed the progression and graduation rates of more than fifteen thousand students. Students who took the class during their undergraduate career were found to graduate at much higher rates than students who never took the class. The library examined students’ high school GPAs and aptitude test scores but were unable to account for the increase through any difference in precollegiate achievement.

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Socialisation in a Space of Law: Student Performativity at ‘Coffee House’ in a University Law Faculty

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1068/d4205 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 25 (5) ◽

pp. 761-782 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Sarah Turner ◽

Desmond Manderson

Keyword(s):

Social Space ◽

Law School ◽

Law Students ◽

Law Firms ◽

Social Event ◽

Canadian Law ◽

Law Faculty ◽

Mcgill University ◽

Law Student ◽

Academic Year

Working with ideas of performance and performativity, the geographies of law, and the sociology of the legal profession, this paper reports on a study of the microgeography of a social space in a major Canadian law school, and, more specifically, questions what it means to be a law student there. ‘Coffee House’ at McGill University Faculty of Law is a weekly social event sponsored for half the academic year by prominent Canadian law firms who supply free alcohol and food to the students attending in an effort to ‘brand’ their firm. These events contribute in different ways to the socialisation and identity of the law students present. We argue that a performativity of what it is to be a McGill law student heading towards corporate success begins to be structured through the repetition of a range of performances undertaken in this space.

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How to Find the Law

Nursing, Law & Ethics ◽

10.1017/s0270663600001254 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 1 (10) ◽

pp. 5-5

Author(s):

George J. Annas

Keyword(s):

Federal District ◽

The United States ◽

Law School ◽

Court System ◽

District Courts ◽

Appeals Courts ◽

The Law ◽

Law Student ◽

Law Library ◽

Federal District Courts

The purpose of this column is not to teach you how to use the law library to perform legal research (something very few lawyers know how to do efficiently), but to give you enough information so that you can locate the legal materials cited in Nursing Law & Ethics. To locate most references cited in this newsletter, you will have to use a law library. The first rule of research in any unfamiliar library is, of course, to ask the reference librarian for assistance.All law schools have substantial libraries, as do many local bar associations. To obtain admission to the law library of your local law school, you may need special permission from the school or the assistance of a law student. Once inside, you will discover the principal problem with writing about “the law” in the United States: each of the 50 states has its own court system and legislature, and therefore, each has its own set of statutes and case reporters. Superimposed on this structure is a system of federal district courts and federal appeals courts.

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