Professor Chelsea Baldwin

Using practice problems to learn law – differences between novices and experts

April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 Chelsea Baldwin

In this post, Professor Baldwin shares her observations about how students in different stages of expertise development use practice problems to aid learning law.

Rule statements in informal legal writing, part 1

March 22, 2022March 21, 2022 Chelsea Baldwin

In part 1 of "Rule statement in informal legal writing," Professor Baldwin articulates the attributes that distinguish rule statements from other sentences in written legal analysis and discusses the first two attributes in some depth.

CB’s Tech Tips: Generating a Table of Contents

March 12, 2022March 7, 2022 Chelsea Baldwin

Modern word processing software makes it incredibly easy to generate a table of contents for documents. However, that feature is predicated on users applying styles to document text to instruct the program on which text snippets need to be listed in the table of contents and thereby what pages that content can be found on.… Continue reading CB’s Tech Tips: Generating a Table of Contents

Framing legal issues in informal legal writing

March 7, 2022 Chelsea Baldwin

This post delineates the differences in issue-framing for formal and informal legal writing and provides examples of the three classic strategies to frame issues in the time pressures of law school exams.

“One weird trick” to improve retention

January 19, 2022January 18, 2022 Chelsea Baldwin

Cue the puzzled looks. "Adding an activity to the beginning of my reading can help me read faster?"

Time Management meet project management (i.e., Legal Writing assignments)

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 Chelsea Baldwin

This post offers an example of how to break a big project (the closed memo) into a bunch of tasks that can be sprinkled throughout one's schedule to ensure timely completion.

CB’s Tech Tips: Word Processing Styles

September 17, 2021September 16, 2021 Chelsea Baldwin

This post walks through applying "styles" in Microsoft Word. Using styles helps increase efficiency in formatting documents, generates click navigation within a document, and unlocks the table of contents generator tool.