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Learning to “Think Like a Lawyer”
By Elizabeth Mertz
Sheet : 327 Pages
Year : 2017
Size : 3.14 MB
Language : English
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This is a study whose genesis dates back to the day I first took my seat in a Contracts classroom as a first-year law student, and that came to fruition as I for the first time taught Contracts to first-year law students.

Having participated in both ends of the process has added depth to my understanding of the law school experience. As a first-year student, I took notes in my Contracts class in two columns; the first kept track of the concepts my professor was endeavoring to impresson us, and the second was a running anthropologist’s commentary on the studiesthat someone should do to investigate the social and linguistic processes at work in contract law—and in legal reasoning generally.

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