Live Critique of Oral Arguments: Response to Amanda L. Sholtis, Say What?: A How-To Guide on Providing Formative Assessment to Law Students Through Live Critique

Live critique is a process through which a teacher reviews a student’s work for the first time “live” with the student and provides feedback. Stetson Law Review recently published Say What?: A How-To Guide on Providing Formative Assessment to Law Students Through Live Critique by Professor Amanda L. Sholtis, which focuses on the use of live critique to give feedback to students on written law school assignments, such as memorandums of law or exam answers. This response will offer some reflections on Professor Sholtis’ article and also will discuss how providing feedback to students immediately after they present oral arguments is another useful example of the live-critique method in legal education.

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