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Law Students and Cell Phone Use: Results of a Six-School Survey
UMKC Law Review
  • Robert M. Jarvis, Nova Southeastern University - Shepard Broad College of Law
  • Cindy Thomas Archer, University of California, Irvine School of Law
  • Linda Galler, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
  • Hugh D. Spitzer, University of Washington School of Law
  • Jodi Wilson, University of Memphis - Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
  • Mark E. Wojcik, UIC John Marshall Law School
Publication Date
1-1-2020
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Abstract

The sight of a law student using his or her cell phone now is so common that law professors do not give it a second though. But what, exactly, is the student doing? Texting with friends? Shopping? Watching a movie? To try to find out, during the Fall 2019 semester we asked our six diverse law schools to take an online survey consisting of eighteen questions. To our knowledge, this is the first phone survey of law students. This paper presents the results of the survey, exploring applications used (text, social media, email, etc.) and differences by audience (e.g., whether students used text or email with employers as opposed to friends).

Citation Information
Robert M. Jarvis, Cindy Thomas Archer, Linda Galler, Hugh D. Spitzer, et al.. "Law Students and Cell Phone Use: Results of a Six-School Survey" UMKC Law Review Vol. 89 (2020) p. 269
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mark_wojcik/203/