Working the Nexus: Teaching Students to Think, Read and Problem-Solve Like a Lawyer
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Heath, Mary
Steel, Alex
Hewitt, Anne
Israel, Mark
Skead, Natalie
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The nature and purpose of Australian legal education has changed over time but it is at least arguable that one constant has been the importance of law students learning to think: more particularly, learning to think ‘like lawyers’. Despite agreement on thinking as a fundamental legal skill, giving content to this concept has generated debate within the academy and the profession. There is also some debate about why the many law students who will never be lawyers need to learn to think like lawyers. Further, even if there were agreement on what ‘thinking like a lawyer’ really means, how to teach legal thinking effectively remains relatively obscure.
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Legal Education Review
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26
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© The Author(s) 2016. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Legal education
Legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession
Law in context
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Galloway, K; Heath, M; Steel, A; Hewitt, A; Israel, M; Skead, N, Working the Nexus: Teaching Students to Think, Read and Problem-Solve Like a Lawyer, Legal Education Review, 2016, 26 (1-2), pp. 95-114