Incoming 1L's are perusing booklists for their first year courses. In these courses, 1L's will set about the task of learning doctrine and learning to "think like lawyers." Should law students also be required to learn grammar?
Many have commented that a significant mumber of incoming law students lack the general writing skills that are necessary to succeed both as law students and as lawyers. If this is true, then should law schools require that law students also learn grammar?
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, considered that question and has taken on the task of teaching law students grammar. Ann L. Nowack, Director of Touro's Legal Writing Center wrote about the program at Touro in her 2012 article, Tough Love: The Law School that Required Its Students to Learn Good Grammar. The article provides food for thought as the begining of the new academic year approaches.
(Myra Orlen)
