Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Session 2, 11:30am-12:15pm
Law Students' Case Reading and Reasoning Study: Final Results and Tools for Legal Writing Teachers
Dorie Evensen & Jim Stratman
Program Code: T2E
Final results of a three-year study of case reading and reasoning indicate that law students are able to locate and understand canonical parts of single cases, but struggle when asked to synthesize among related cases and often fail to recognized subtleties of cases that will advance a position of advocacy. Panelists will discuss how legal writing teachers can use their instrument to formatively assess student reading development.