This year we taught the bulk of legal research to the 1L's in the 2nd semester
here at the University of Richmond. We taught one class (on secondary sources)
at the very end of the 1st semester and then the basics - cases, statutes, and
administrative, and CALR in the 2nd semester. From our perspective, it seemed
to go smoother. The students followed fewer deadend trails in their research
since they seemed to be more at ease with the language of the law. But I
understand that the students hated it. They seemed to feel that they were
being cheated out of something by not having research instruction in the 1st
semester. Not that they needed it mind you, I couldn't find one who would
admit that, what it boiled down to was "that's not the way it was done in the
past".
Joyce Manna Janto
Deputy Director of the Law Library
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