Education
Feb. 17, 2015
Laptops in law school: To ban or not to ban?
The issue gained renewed currency when a Boston professor posted a law review article this month citing studies demonstrating that students who type notes on their laptops retain and comprehend less than those who handwrite their notes.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Earlier this year, UC Hastings College of Law student Matthew Huzaineh got permission from administrators to switch out of one constitutional law class into a different one. Why? Because the first professor forbids students from using laptop computers in class, while the second one does not.
"It's a big issue," said Rory Little, Huzaineh's new, more accommodating con law prof...
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