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Download or read book Lawyering Skills in the Doctrinal Classroom written by Tammy Pettinato Oltz and published by Carolina Academic Press LLC. This book was released on 2020 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After decades of taking a back seat to doctrine, lawyering skills have lately become the star of the legal education reform movement. Few law schools continue to question whether essential lawyering skills such as legal writing, research, and advocacy deserve a prominent place in the curriculum. Yet law schools continue to struggle with an artificial split between "doctrinal" courses and "skills" courses-a split that ignores best practices and undermines student learning. In this book, which includes an Introduction by Sophie Sparrow, more than twenty law professors who have figured out how to bridge the gap show why integrating skills into traditional doctrinal courses is crucial to student learning and offer proven strategies for how to do it"--