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Before the Final Draft: Oral Argument as a Student-Centered Feedback Tool
Stephanie Juliano
Assistant Professor of Practice
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Published: November 2023
Are you “feedback literate”? Are your students? Do you design and deliver your legal writing course to hone your students’ feedback literacy and maximize the power of your feedback?
Being a teacher of legal writing can be overwhelming and intimidating. A legal writing teacher has so much work to do prior to getting in the classroom, and then once in the classroom, a legal writing teacher must manage what happens during class. Moreover, a legal writing teacher must divide time between tasks that occur after class, such as grading students’ work and conferencing with them.