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Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 2 P30

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 2 P30 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 278 CASE OR CONTROVERSY Loyalty is a SENTIMENT NOT A LAW. Sir Roger Casement examinations. Typically law students are tested only once in each class. They face enormous pressure to perform well on this examination since their single score on it usually constitutes their entire grade for the class. It is difficult to test analysis skills so often these examinations test the students ability to spot legal issues and apply legal rules. Therefore although professors try to teach case analysis skills students tend to focus on simply learning rules of law in the hope of getting good grades. This diminishes the case method s intended result. The case method may be unpopular with law students owing to the amount of reading it requires. It is not uncommon for law professors to assign 20 to 30 pages of reading containing excerpts from four or five cases each night for each class. Some law professors have argued that pupils learn to analyze cases within the first few months of law school and that thereafter the case method becomes ineffective because students lose enthusiasm and interest in reading cases. Another complaint concerns the role of casebooks. Casebooks commonly contain cases or case excerpts as well as some explanatory text. They are most often compiled by law professors who arrange the cases to show legal development or illustrate the meaning of legal principles. These casebooks provide only a small sample of cases the vast majority of them appellate-level decisions. Thus law students usually receive little or no exposure to decisions of trial courts. Some commentators suggest that students therefore miss critical elements of a lawyer s initial role discovering and shaping facts and determining legal strategies to present to the court at the trial level. Frequently students do not see legal conflicts in their undeveloped form until they graduate and begin practicing law. Law schools increasingly are trying to remedy that problem by offering instruction in basic .