Leveling the Playing Field: Helping Students Succeed by Helping Them Learn to Read as Expert Lawyers
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The article explores a way in which law schools can level the field of student admission in order to ensure the success of students as law students and as lawyers in the United States. A study which compares the reading skills of a professor and four students who had been admitted to law school under a special admissions program is presented. It provides the techniques for students to develop their reading skills. It emphasizes on the importance of teaching legal reading.
Recommended Citation
Laurel Oates,
Leveling the Playing Field: Helping Students Succeed by Helping Them Learn to Read as Expert Lawyers, 80 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. 227
(2006).
https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/faculty/348