This originally appeared in March of 2007:
As a law professor, I’m always looking for good resources to help students make sense of what it is they are learning and to figure out how to understand what we are doing. Here are links to abstracts for two great ones that I ran across today.
The first is an article on how legal experts read cases and what law students can do to become experts more quickly. The Paradox of Legal Expertise, by Leah Christiansen.
The second is an article on legal logic by a judge from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and two of his clerks. Ruggero Aldisert, the judge, has written an excellent book on appeals and another on logic for lawyers. Logic for Law Students, by Ruggero Aldisert, Stephen Clowney, and Jeremy Peterson.
