Teaching, Thinking, and the Legal Creative Process

Authors

Barbara P. Blumenfeld, University of New Mexico - School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 10-1-2011

Abstract

The author asks how we can teach student how to think as she reflects on how many students with excellent basic writing skills were not fully developing the reasoning before writing their paper.

Part One of this essay formulates the creative process necessary for developing good legal analysis, arguments, and documents, and suggests its encouragement by non-result oriented teaching. Part Two explains a class the author designed, which succeeds, at least in part, in bringing thinking to the surface for study and discussion.

Publisher

Institution for Law Teaching and Learning

Publication Title

The Law Teacher

Volume

38

Issue

1

First Page

3

Last Page

7

Recommended Citation

Barbara P. Blumenfeld, Teaching, Thinking, and the Legal Creative Process, 38 The Law Teacher 3 (2011).
Available at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/609