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Dawn Young

Actress

Mar 30, 2026

22:50
Have you seen that in any of your teaching? Have you been able to help students kind of navigate this balance between wanting to do a competition like this and have other responsibilities?
23:01
Yeah, I was just thinking about this the other day in terms of fairness and equity.
23:05
And I do think that in some ways the right on is relatively fair in the sense that there's typically the blind grading The blind writing competition process.
23:18
But you know, it's not a perfect process.
23:21
Like you said, there's some students that are entering already understanding what law journal is, whether they have an attorney in their family or they may be in their prior academic experience and exposure to academic type writing.
23:38
And then there are those, like you were saying that have family obligations and They have other challenges in life where they may not know about law journal culture.
23:48
To that, I would say, and it is a quote from my high school English teacher, Mr. Monahan.

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34:51
So what do we tell folks who aren't necessarily getting the outcome that they want? What should they do now?

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