Integrating Legal Research Into The Law School Curriculum

Denitsa Mavrova Heinrich (North Dakota) & Tammy Pettinato Oltz (North Dakota; Google Scholar), Legal Research Just in Time: A New Approach to Integrating Legal Research into the Law School Curriculum, 88 Tenn. L. Rev. 469:  

This Article discusses an innovative way of integrating legal research instruction into the law school curriculum without detracting from the time and resources necessary for intensive legal writing and analysis instruction. Building on the concept of "just-in-time" learning, a pedagogical method based on the theory that students learn better when there is an immediate need for the information they are receiving, this Article proposes infusing legal research instruction into the law school curriculum at key moments, or "checkpoints," rather than in isolated blocks of time. 

The Article argues that making legal research instruction dynamic rather than static, available to students on both an as-needed and an ongoing basis, can enhance student learning and better prepare students for the practice of law.

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