Volume 5 Winter 2011 Number 2 - Charleston Law Review

SCHULZE FINAL.doc1/20/2011 6:14PM2011] Law School Academic Supportrecord this information by means of a digital voice recorder. 197Finally, kinesthetic learners are taught how to write an outlineas a series of flashcards or how to make a master outline on agiant scroll of butcher paper. 198 Underperforming students whowork with the Study for Success Program in the spring are urgedto journal the ways that they tweak their study methods tocomport with their preferred learning style. 199This type of instruction demonstrates an academic supportmethod that humanizes the law school environment by “teachingstudents, not subjects.” By teaching students both how todetermine their preferred learning style and how to alter theirstudy methods to create better absorption of material, thismethod customizes the learning environment for each individualstudent. This stands in contrast to the traditional law schoolenvironment, in which students learn through the law schoolrumor mill that there are only two ways to study law: readingcases (or hornbooks) and outlining. That traditional approach,which focuses strictly on read-write learners, ignores all otherlearners—visual, audial, kinesthetic, or multimodal—who mightturn out to be outstanding lawyers if not forced to digest the onesize-fits-allmentality of the traditional law school. This methodhumanizes the law school and increases the likelihood ofstudents’ success.3. Humanizing Tenet Number Three: “Peace and Justice”The definition of “peace and justice” might best be describedas follows: “The call to humanize legal education is part of amuch larger call to humanize the profession by recapturing theessence of professional values—peacemaking, problem solving,and justice work.” 200 As discussed previously, each of thesevalues gets little to no mention in the traditional law schoolcurriculum, and specifically during the first year. Peacemakingis virtually ignored, as students’ primary vision of law practice is197. Id.198. Id.199. Id.200. Fines, supra note 37, at 322.317