THE READING OF LEGAL CASES AMONG LAW STUDENTS

LEGAL ENGLISH

One of the foremost essential skills for law students to achieve success in their discipline is that the ability to scan legal cases. Christensen (2006) in her analysis entitled "Legal Reading and Success in Law School: AN Empirical Study" shows that students United Nations agency area unit ready to scan judicial opinions effectively and expeditiously area unit a lot of fortunate in their studies. However, the foremost common assumption is that students would have possessed this talent once they recruit during a graduate school. This attitudinal misconception is stated as “skills preparation assumption” (Strat man, 1990). Thus, this paper describes a hunt that tried to explore the common practices within the reading of legal cases among law students during a Malaysian public university. It emphasizes on the issues moon-faced and also the methods used by law students in winding up the task. This study that adopted a case study style obtained the information through interview sessions with a number of law students and lecturers. The results showed that more practical pedagogic approaches may well be devised to help students to beat their issues in reading legal cases. Students were additionally found to own developed their own techniques in overcoming the difficulties in reading legal cases.

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