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 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 CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES, THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE AND LEGAL EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: SHAPING OUR LEGAL ORDER

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elmarie Fourie
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Therapeutic Jurisprudence ◽  
Law Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
The Future

Law schools have a responsibility to remind law students that by studying law they have the power to transform thoughts, policies and lives, and that practising law is not just about financial rewards, but that its greatest reward is contributing to the betterment of society and ultimately to social change. The values and philosophies that law lecturers instil in law students can contribute to the legal order of the future; a legal order that supports a transformative South Africa. A need exists to bring legal education closer to the values enshrined in our Constitution. In addition to an extensive knowledge of legal principles, critical thinking and research skills, law students should critically engage with our constitutional values. The question remains: How do we transform legal education in South Africa? How do we change the way we teach law students? The introduction of concepts such as therapeutic jurisprudence enhanced by our constitutional values will ensure that we deliver graduates that display a commitment to our constitutional vales and an ability to engage critically with these values. It is important to establish a professional legal identity amongst students from their first year as this will assist in the development of a well-rounded graduate that can contribute to the legal order of the future. Letter writing and drafting skills, the value of plain language, moot court activities, alternative dispute resolution and clinical legal education provide opportunities to integrate valuable therapeutic jurisprudence principles into the curriculum and can allow students to critically engage with our constitutional values. By embodying these values they can improve the legal system, shape our legal order and promote progress toward an equal and free democratic society as envisaged by the Constitution.

scholarly journals Moot Court as Learning Method for Bachelor of Law: Towards Progressive Legal Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
I Dewa Made Suartha ◽  
I Dewa Agung Gede Mahardhika Martha
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Criminal Trials ◽  
Procedural Law

Moot court is onepractical learning method of procedural law learning that must be given to undergraduate law students. This learning method as a framework initiated by John Dewey as the achievement of progressive legal education, especially in criminal justice practices. The purpose of this learning method is to provide students with a deepening of criminal justice both based on theory and practice as well as provide opportunities for students to carry out the criminal trial practice by taking examples of criminal case decisions that have obtained permanent legal force. This paper specifically discovers, studies, analyzes and provides deepening related to criminal justice based on theory and practice for law students at the level of the Bachelor of Law program to obtain a progressive legal educationThe method used in this paper is empirical legal research method using primary data and secondary data based on a purposive sampling model with deep-interview concerning the practice of the moot court in law higher education. The results of this study indicate that students have gained a deepening of criminal procedural law, particularly in the implementation of criminal justice guided by supervisors and legal practitioners as tutors and instructors. This study also suggestedthat students have been able to practice criminal justice as true as actual criminal trials accompanied by supervisors and legal practitioners as their mentors in achieving progressive legal education.

scholarly journals Alcohol and other substance use among medical and law students at a UK university: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 94 (1109) ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bogowicz ◽  
Jennifer Ferguson ◽  
Eilish Gilvarry ◽  
Farhad Kamali ◽  
Eileen Kaner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Substance Misuse ◽  
Law Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Students First ◽  
Second Year

Purpose of the studyTo examine the use of alcohol and other substances among medical and law students at a UK university.Study designAnonymous cross-sectional questionnaire survey of first, second and final year medical and law students at a single UK university.Results1242 of 1577 (78.8%) eligible students completed the questionnaire. Over half of first and second year medical students (first year 53.1%, second year 59.7%, final year 35.9%) had an Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) score suggestive of an alcohol use disorder (AUDIT≥8), compared with over two-thirds of first and second year law students (first year 67.2%, second year 69.5%, final year 47.3%). Approximately one-quarter of medical students (first year 26.4%, second year 28.4%, final year 23.7%) and over one-third of first and second year law students (first year 39.1%, second year 42.4%, final year 18.9%) reported other substance use within the past year. Over one-third of medical students (first year 34.4%, second year 35.6%, final year 46.3%) and approximately half or more of law students (first year 47.2%, second year 52.7%, final year 59.5%) had a Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale anxiety score suggestive of a possible anxiety disorder.ConclusionsStudy participants had high levels of substance misuse and anxiety. Some students’ fitness to practice may be impaired as a result of their substance misuse or symptoms of psychological distress. Further efforts are needed to reduce substance misuse and to improve the mental well-being of students.

Educational Disadvantages and Indigenous Law Students: Barriers and Potential Solutions

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Melville
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Attrition Rates ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Indigenous Law ◽  
Western Model ◽  
Students First ◽  
Education Academic

Indigenous students are under-represented in Australian universities, including in law school, and have lower educational outcomes relative to non-Indigenous students. First, this article identifies systemic barriers that prevent Indigenous students from enrolling in law school, including entrenched educational disadvantage that prevents many Indigenous students from achieving the grades necessary for university entry. Indigenous students who overcome this disadvantage and enrol in law schools then face higher attrition rates relative to non-Indigenous law students. Indigenous students find law schools to be intimidating, unfamiliar and alienating environments. Law schools privilege a narrow Western model of legal education that continues to deny Indigenous understandings of the law. Second, this article identifies potential solutions that may assist in addressing these barriers. These include alternative entry schemes, building pathways between vocational training and universities and engaged outreach programmes for assisting Indigenous students into higher education. Academic, social and financial support is required to address attrition rates; however, solutions need to go deeper than the provision of additional assistance. This article argues for the need to Indigenize legal education, and for the curriculum to consider law as pluralistic and embedded in power relations, and to provide the focus on social justice which motivates many Indigenous students to study law in the first place.

scholarly journals Comparative Legal Research-Building a Legal Attitude for a Transnational World

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (40) ◽  
pp. 66-80
Author(s):  
Muhammad Imran Ali
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
History Of

AbstractComparative Legal Research (CLR) is a valuable tool for legal research because it expands the history of community experience. Understanding basic knowledge in different systems fills the knowledge gap. However, the principles of globalization and universal human rights require a greater role for systematic CLR. This article analyzes the role of comparative legal research in contemporary legal education. The discussion is based on the idea that it is useful to distinguish between the education of lawyers and the conduct of comparative legal research. Comparative law is a successful field of study that has ignited a growing interest in academic and legal education in recent decades. It is proposed to pay more attention to the comparative pedagogy of legal research in today's world, where law students must be prepared to function in a global context. While comparative academic research, the goal is to foster a deep cultural understanding of foreign law, but in legal education, the goal is to learn the spirit as an advocate. This article provides an overview of the key conceptual tools to tackle the problem of the comparative methodology by introducing the logical argument to help the researcher to filter his approach. A literature review method will adopt for this article.

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