Selected Publications

Articles

Should Laptops Be Banned?  Providing a Robust Classroom Learning Experience Within Limits, 20(1) PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING 8 (Fall 2011).

How to Critique & Grade Contract Drafting Assignments, Special Report, Tenn. J. Bus. L. 297 (2009). 

Law Students Are Different from the General Population: Empirical Findings Regarding Learning Styles, with Jeffrey Minneti and Andrea Honigsfeld, 17 (3) PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RES. & WRITING  153 (2009).

Suggestions on How to Conduct Empirical Research: A Behind-the-Scenes View, with Joanne Ingham, 15(3) Perspectives: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 176 (2007).

Generation X in Law School: How These Law Students are Different from Those Who Teach Them, with  Joanne Ingham, 56 J.  Legal  Educ. 281 (2006) (peer reviewed).

Contract Drafting Courses for Upper-Level Students: Teaching Tips, 14(2) Perspectives: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 87 (Winter 2006).

Law Students with Attention Deficit Disorder: How To Reach Them, How to Teach Them, 39(2) J. MARSHALL L. REV. 349 (2006).

Applying Learning Styles Theory in the Workplace:  How to Maximize Learning-Styles Strengths to Improve Work Performance in Law Practice, 79 St. John's Law Review 97 (2005).

Employing Active-Learning Techniques and Metacognition in Law School: Shifting Energy from Professor to Student, 81 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 1 (2003).

Presenting a New Instructional Tool for Teaching Law-Related Courses: A Contract Activity Package for Motivated and Independent Learners, with Karen Russo & Rose Frances Lefkowitz, 38:1 Gonzaga L. Rev. 1 (2003). 

Providing Structure to Law Students - Introducing the Programmed Learning Sequence as an Instructional Tool, with Lynne Dolle, 8 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 59 (2002).

How Children in Cults May Use Emancipation Laws to Free Themselves,16 (1) Cultic Stud. J. 1 (1999) (peer-reviewed).

Teaching Law Students Through Individual Learning Styles, with Rita Dunn, 62 Alba. L. Rev. 213 (1998).

Women, the Law, and Cults: Three Avenues of Legal Recourse - New Rape Laws, VAWA, and Anti-Stalking Laws, 15 (1) Cultic Stud. J. 1 (1998) (peer-reviewed).

Current Status of Federal Law Concerning Violent Crimes Against Women and Children: Implications for Cult Victims, 1 (1) Cultic Studies Rev. 65 (2002).

Book Chapters

How Schools, Parents, and Courts can Respond to Federal Law and Improve Classroom Teaching for At-Risk Students, in DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION FOR  AT-RISK STUDENTS, by Rita Dunn and Andrea Honigsfeld (2009).

A Blueprint for a Truly Innovative Law School, in What If . . . : A Guide to Improving Education (R. Dunn & S.A. Griggs, eds., 2007).

Impact of Learning Styles and Law School Teaching, in Synthesis of the Dunn and Dunn Learning-Style Model Research: Who, What, When and What? (St. John's Univ. Center for Study of Learning & Teaching) (R. Dunn & S.A. Griggs, eds., 2007).

Research on Learning Style and Legal Writing, in Synthesis of the Dunn and Dunn Learning-Style Model Research: Who, What, When and What? (St. John's Univ. Center for Study of Learning & Teaching) (R. Dunn & S.A. Griggs, eds., 2007).

Bringing Learning Styles Instructional Strategies to Law School, in Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles Application in Higher Education (R. Dunn & S.A. Griggs, eds., 2000).

Essays

The Blind Leading the Blind: What if They're Not all Visual or Tactile Learners, with James B. Levy, 22(2) The Second Draft 6 (2008).

In Response to the Remarks by Lawrence H. Summers, Presenting Empirical Data on the Differences in Learning Styles Between Males and Females, with Andrea Honigsfeld, 11(3) Cardozo Women's L. J. 505 (2005).

Book Review

Review of: Grandparents’ Rights: What Every Grandparent Needs to Know by Patricia Perkins Slorah, 3 (3) Cultic Stud. Review (2004) and at www.culticstudiesreview.org.

Legislative/Administrative Histories

Community Serv. Admin., Studies in Community Action:  A Legislative and Administrative History, with Kathryn Lazar & Laura Zeisel (1981).

Admin., Studies in Community Action:  A Chronology and Bibliography, with Kathryn Lazar & Laura Zeisel (1981).

 

Robin Boyle