First Year Law Students, Legal Research Skills and Electronic Resources

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Meredith
Keyword(s):  
Law Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Research Skills

Life-long Learning – How Legal Research is Taught at Melbourne University

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Wieland
Keyword(s):  
Law Students ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Law Student

AbstractNatalie Wieland, who teaches legal research skills, reflects on her own experiences as a law student undertaking legal research using only paper-based searches and compares them with her current experiences training completely digitally-aware law students in a world heavily biased towards electronic resources.

scholarly journals Law Student Views on the Principles of a Legal Research Website: a User Experience Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Channarong Intahchomphoo ◽  
Margo Jeske ◽  
Emily Landriault ◽  
Michelle Brown
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Law Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Law Student ◽  
The University

AbstractThe Principles of Legal Research (PLR) website of the University of Ottawa's Brian Dickson Law Library is a bilingual (English and French) online learning tool for all first year students in both Common Law and Civil Law.1 Law librarians use this e-learning website to facilitate teaching components such as student assignments and assessments. This user experience study aims to investigate law students’ real experience with the system. Their feedback will be used for future development planning as well as analysing user behaviour trends. The authors investigate the following aspects: accuracy of information, interface design, navigation system, Web 2.0, social media, and smartphone version.

scholarly journals Stepping Up to the Podium with Confidence: A Primer for Law Students on Preparing and Delivering an Appellate Oral Argument

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Dimitri
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Appellate Courts ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
Oral Argument ◽  
Students First

38 Stetson Law Review 75 (2008)Virtually all law students are required to learn oral advocacy skills at some point during their legal education. Typically, these skills are cultivated through at least one oral argument assignment, which often consists of an appellate oral argument that is given as part of the students' first-year legal research and writing course or as part of a moot court competition. While appellate courts do not grant oral argument as often as they used to, oral advocacy remains a critical skill for law students to learn and cultivate, no matter which facet of law practice they enter upon graduation. Unfortunately, the prospect of learning this critical skill can be disquieting to students. Students may, however, ease their anxiety and ultimately deliver an excellent oral argument if they fully understand the purposes of the argument and if they thoroughly prepare for the argument. This article is targeted at oral argument novices. It discusses how a beginner to appellate oral argument may effectively prepare and deliver an argument, particularly if the argument is given as part of a law school's legal research and writing course or as part of a moot court competition.

scholarly journals Towards Sustainable Computer-assisted Legal Research in Nigerian Law Faculties: Exploring the Nexus between User Education, Intrinsic Motivation and Use of Electronic Law Databases

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Anuoluwa Maria Ajala
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Electronic Information Resources ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
User Education

Despite the inclusion of legal research in academic curriculum of law programmes in universities, some factors are still capable of militating against the acquisition of legal research skills by law students. Every law faculty in Nigeria teaches legal research skills to their students, but there are still signs of poor legal research skills by law graduates in Nigeria, which is reflected in their inability to find the legal information that is relevant in the practice of the legal profession. It is argued that computer-assisted legal research entails a process in which electronic law information resources are indispensable. One of the electronic law information resources is the electronic law database. The use of electronic law databases is indeed crucial to legal research. However, lack of user education may lead to lack of intrinsic motivation to use electronic databases. In Nigerian law faculties, a lot of funds are invested in provision of electronic information resources in order to promote legal research among law students. However, the relationship between user education and use of electronic law databases may or may not justify the funds invested. This article explicates the place of computer-assisted legal research in law faculties and reveals that there is a need for law students to be intrinsically motivated to use electronic law databases. This article also exhibits additional measures that Nigerian law faculties can take in order to motivate law students to use the electronic law databases.

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