Sentences with phrase «law school composition»

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On the contrary, requirements for the reporting of extensive information on academic outcomes and basic characteristics of schools, including their demographic composition, have been embedded in federal and state laws.

The author, an English professor and faculty member of New York University Law School's Seminar for Appellate Judges, argues to judges that good judicial writing is similar to good writing in general because the same rules of organization, style, and composition apply to both.

The number of students going to law school, the composition of classes, job opportunities... all have changed a lot in a very short period of time.

The best route for a poor writer (and I'm sorry to have to say this, but an awful lot of lawyers struggle to even write passably — another abject failure of law schools and bar examiners, for passing these poor souls) is to take an introductory composition class that will give one the ability to parse sentences so as to know if they are grammatically correct.

Legal education may be a disservice for the significant group of students that never pass a bar exam — a group whose composition can be predicted fairly accurately before they've even begun law school,» she says.

But while law schools have made some significant forward strides in achieving a gender balance and diversifying the ethnic composition of their graduates, it is difficult to believe that they are making any headway on socioeconomic diversity.

These centers offer benefits that are consistent with both law school and legal writing pedagogy and traditional composition theory.

L. Rev. 135, 151 — 171 (1987)(calling for more «critical reading and writing» in the law school curriculum); Pamela Lysaght & Cristina D. Lockwood, Writing - Across - the - Law - School - Curriculum: Theoretical Justifications, Curricular Implications, 2 J. ALWD 73 (2004)(using composition theory as part of the basis for a writing - across - the - law - school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, 40 law school curriculum); Pamela Lysaght & Cristina D. Lockwood, Writing - Across - the - Law - School - Curriculum: Theoretical Justifications, Curricular Implications, 2 J. ALWD 73 (2004)(using composition theory as part of the basis for a writing - across - the - law - school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, school curriculum); Pamela Lysaght & Cristina D. Lockwood, Writing - Across - the - Law - School - Curriculum: Theoretical Justifications, Curricular Implications, 2 J. ALWD 73 (2004)(using composition theory as part of the basis for a writing - across - the - law - school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, 40 Law - School - Curriculum: Theoretical Justifications, Curricular Implications, 2 J. ALWD 73 (2004)(using composition theory as part of the basis for a writing - across - the - law - school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, School - Curriculum: Theoretical Justifications, Curricular Implications, 2 J. ALWD 73 (2004)(using composition theory as part of the basis for a writing - across - the - law - school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, 40 law - school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, 40 Sw.

Law schools and legal writing programs have long embraced composition theory as a basis for program innovations and curricular design.1 Furthermore, legal scholars have noted the importance of individualized instruction and the benefits produced by student conferences.2 Nevertheless, few law schools offer a peer - staffed writing center as part of the legal writing progrLaw schools and legal writing programs have long embraced composition theory as a basis for program innovations and curricular design.1 Furthermore, legal scholars have noted the importance of individualized instruction and the benefits produced by student conferences.2 Nevertheless, few law schools offer a peer - staffed writing center as part of the legal writing progrlaw schools offer a peer - staffed writing center as part of the legal writing program.

But on balance, he approves: «The change in legal education that I've been describing would, by tilting the composition of law school faculties more toward the practical, create a greater faculty interest in judges.

Whatever the impact, we will be better able to adjust our teaching if we can move past the uninformed assumptions we make about informal writing — that it weakens linguistic skills and tolerates sloppy composition — to predict, as specifically as possible, informal writing's impact on more formal writing as the «generation text» moves into law school.

Levit and Linder's book is a serious look at the composition of the legal profession and all its stages from law school to practising law through to leaving the profession by retirement or otherwise.

Ms. Rapaport asserts that the composition of law school faculties is partly to blame for this focus.

As for the report's data collection recommendation, which suggests law schools should «gather and publish qualitative and quantitative data on the composition of students entering and exiting law school,» Brooks says her law school collects «some» data, and also works collaboratively with the barristers» society to track the students and their path as they enter the profession.

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