Legal Methods Professor
Jean K. Sbarge presented “Taking
the Lede from Journalism: Two Exercises to Hook Students’ Interest and
Introduce Concepts” at the Tenth Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing
Conference in March at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College
of Law. Professor Sbarge discussed and demonstrated exercises designed
to grab students’ attention while providing hands-on experiential
learning to help students understand concepts. One exercise brings to
life the real Pringles versus potato chip case to introduce legal
reasoning and rule application, and the other exercise uses an Edward
Hopper painting, Diane Arbus photograph and news photograph to introduce
and teach the concept of counterargument. More than 100 legal writing
professors from across the country attended the conference.