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Fried, A. (2024). Unstructuring for insight: The legal profession in an age of AI & social change. Law Teacher, 58(1), 74.
Link to paper This paper explores the importance of teaching law students how to engage in a process of “unstructuring” a well-structured problem in order to recapture information about the facts and context of the problem that were de-emphasized as irrelevant in the initial structuring process. By converting a well-structured problem into an ill-structured one,…
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Jennifer A. Gundlach, (2006) “This is a Courtroom, Not a Classroom: So What is the Role of the Clinical Supervisor?” 13:1 Clinical L Rev 279
“Feelings of uncertainty, confusion and sheer inexperience can only be overcome when one is forced to make quick judgment calls and quick decisions. The real learning begins when you are confronted with the consequences of those hasty decisions. Sometimes the consequences are positive, and sometimes they are negative. It is the thought process of sorting…
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Elizabeth Curran, (2018) “Social Justice – Making It Come Alive and a Reality for Student, and Enabling Them to become Engaged Future Ethical Practitioners” 27:2 Nottingham LJ 33
It raises the idea that uncertainty is a reality in clinical legal education and that somehow exposure is the way to address it. I had a hard time finding any actual method or approach to deal head on with uncertainty as a phenomenon in this literature. Maybe it exists and I haven’t found it. Elizabeth…