Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students also perform their clinicals at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, the Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services Center, local District Attorney's offices, Tenant Advocacy Project, and numerous other community advocacy organizations...
...Belinda Lee is a 2L at HLS and the vice-president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau...
Professors highlight important aspects of the cases in class either through the Socratic Method or through the panel system. Under the Socratic Method, a professor calls on a student to state the background facts of the dispute and expound upon the legal reasoning and significance of the case. (Professors can be harsh and unyielding when utilizing the Socratic Method--see The Paper Chase--but most current Harvard Law professors are more easy-going and sympathetic...
First-year law school exams usually include one or two fact-patterns, scenarios from which students are expected to extract and discuss relevant legal issues, and a policy question. Of course, exams differ by professor, so the best way for students to prepare themselves is to study that professor's prior exams...
...Legal Research and Writing...