What Makes a Law Student Succeed or Fail? A Longitudinal Study Correlating Law Student Applicant Data and Law School Outcomes

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexia Brunet Marks ◽  
Scott A. Moss
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Law School ◽  
School Outcomes ◽  
Law Student

scholarly journals Street law for Czech and Slovak young Roma musicians

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Michal Urban ◽  
Hana Draslarová
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
Law Student ◽  
Law School Students

<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>

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

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (03) ◽  
pp. 677-708 ◽  
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.

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

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.

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

10.1068/d4205 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 761-782 ◽  
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.

How to Find the Law

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.

Boomchee

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Shano Naylor ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Law School ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Female Friend ◽  
The Law ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Law Student ◽  
Duty To Inform

At what point in a date do you owe the other party the duty to inform them you are engaged? Is marriage an exercise in love, or practicality? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the law school student narrator working at a summer factory job decides to set up her shy female friend, Susie, with her boyfriend’s shy brother, Barry. They go on a double date and everything seems to be going fine. Only later does the narrator and her boyfriend find out that Barry is engaged to a mail-order bride from Southeast Asia that will be arriving shortly. The shy Barry, it turns out, wanted to “practice” going on a date before his new wife arrived. The law student narrator is embarrassed, and struggles with the moral duty both she, and Barry, owe to Susie.

scholarly journals Emotional Intelligence in Law Students: Relevance of Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 626-646
Author(s):  
I. A. Martynenko ◽  
N. N. Karandasheva
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Law School ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
School Students ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Important Quality ◽  
Study Process ◽  
Law Student

The article focuses on the need for the development of emotional intelligence as the most important quality of professional competence of a future legal specialist, manifested in personality-oriented activities. The authors provide an in-depth analysis of the literature on the topic and describe the results of their empirical research that reveals the level of emotional intelligence of law school students. The results obtained allow us to conclude that the development of emotional intelligence denotes the ability to be aware of one’s emotions, recognize the emotions of other people, manage their emotional states, allow a law student not only to successfully adapt to environmental conditions, constructively build interpersonal interaction, but also effectively manage difficult life situations, to successfully cope with various life difficulties. The listed qualities then become the basis of his successful professional activity. Current terms of remote study process and work create new challenges for testing the emotional intelligence. The authors suggest ways of solving the problem of emotional intelligence development in modern conditions.

scholarly journals Improving Law Student Ability on Legal Writing through Critical and Logical Thinking by IRAC Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-128
Author(s):  
Ridwan Arifin ◽  
Riska Alkadri ◽  
Dewi Puspa Sari ◽  
Lilies Resthiningsih ◽  
Amarru Muftie Holish
Keyword(s):  
Writing Skills ◽  
Law School ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Legal Writing ◽  
Rule Application ◽  
Writing Community ◽  
Law Student

The lack of good stigma is attached to student activists, ranging from the unsatisfactory level of academic quality, graduating on time, not responsive and very reactive, hard and opposing views, to demonstrations that are colored by violence. The stigma is only in a few cases, not all activists face such conditions, but this stigma seems to have been far attached. The development of student activists today demands that activists must also have three literacy abilities: data literacy, humanitarian literacy, and technological literacy. However, based on the preliminary results of this activity, 90 percent of UNNES Law School student activists agreed that activists must have a critical attitude and critical writing skills, but only about 10 percent of activists who had taken it seriously (thought publications in various forms). This activity is aimed at developing the critical abilities of student activists through increased publications in various media. This activity also aims to establish a critical writing community for student activists and present a concrete forum for channeling ideas and solutions for student activists in writing that can be read by many people. This activity is carried out through a critical thinking approach in legal studies using the IRAC (Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion) method which is commonly used in analyzing various cases in legal study thinking.

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