We have been teaching adv. legal research at SUNY Buffalo for quite a few
years now. The nuts and bolts of what we cover are included in Penny's
survey. In comparison with Lynn's experience tho, I must say that the
detailed bibliographies our student's have turned in have generally been
very impressive. While I think that our students didn't do the assigned
reading, or usually didn't, they worked very hard on their weekly
library exercises and did quite well on them. The real problem with
the course was the amount of work for all of us who graded the papers.
We always swear we'll never do it again. But then we forget as time
passes and wind up offering it again. As to design of assignments, "if
we ever do it again," I'd like to incorporate Barbara Gontrum's idea of
in a very deliberate way having the students work a problem completely
manually, then completely on W and then completely on L. Then they
analyze their results.
Ellen Gibson, SUNY at Buffalo. lwlellen@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
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