Bloomberg Law
May 11, 2015, 10:05 PM UTC

Deep Down, Law Students Learn Like Cavemen, New Article Says

Chris Marr

Millennials in law school are really just cavemen with smart phones.

Or, more precisely, humans’ brain function and style of learning haven’t changed much over the last 50,000 years, not even for those so-called “digital natives” who have never known a world without computers and the Internet.

This seems to be the prevailing theme of law professor James B. Levy’s new paper,Teaching the Digital Caveman: Rethinking the Use of Classroom Technology in Law School,” published online May 8 and due for release in the upcoming fall 2015 edition of the Chapman Law Review.

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