Abstract
This article examines academic support programs (ASPs) and how they can be used to inform and change legal education for all law students. The author argues that the new laboratories of the ASPs should replace the "Langdellian laboratories" of traditional first-year legal instruction. Existing methods of legal education are outmoded and may, in fact, foster continued long-term segregation in the legal and academic community. The author argues that ASPs "level the playing field" for students who are often most isolated. Lessons learned in these ASPs, however, can benefit all students, and thus, she urges the law academe to take advantage of all the new research and re-create first-year education to better reflect lessons learned in these new laboratories of the ASPs. This article reviews and integrates research on psychology, learning theory, and methods instruction. Until now, these subjects have been addressed too frequently separately in various law reviews and without sufficient interconnection amongst the topics. The author unites these three areas of research and discusses how ASPs successfully reflect and integrate the entire spectrum of this new research.
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36 Ariz. L. Rev. 667 (1994)
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