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Development of legal expertise

  • In a comprehensive empirical investigation (N = 71,405) we analyzed the development of legal expertise in a critical 1-year period of academic legal training in which advanced law students start practicing to solve complex cases. We were particularly interested in the functional form of the learning curve and inter-individual differences in learning. Performance increases monotonically with the number of practice exams following a slightly concave learning curve without any considerable kinks. Considering the performance development over time, however, the curve is not monotonic and shows intermediate drops in performance. We provide evidence which suggests that these drops are due to cyclic drops in motivation. There are about equally sized marginal effects of practicing law exams in general and practicing exams in the specific area of law. However, students with high (vs. low) initial performance profit more from practicing exams within a specific area of law whereas students with low initial performance profit more from practicing exams in general. The concave increase in performance with the number of practicing exams is mainly driven by individuals with low initial performance. Those with high initial performance mainly display a linear learning trend. We discuss the practical implications of these findings for academic legal training.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Andreas Glöckner, Emanuel Towfigh, Christian Traxler
Parent Title (English):Instructional Science
Publication year:2013
First Page:989
Last Page:1007
Release Date:2016/02/19
Tag:Expertise; Learning curves; Legal decision making; Training
Volume:41
Issue:6
Hertie School Research:Political Economy | Cluster
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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