Recommended Citation
Robert M. Jarvis, Cindy Thomas Archer, Linda Galler, Hugh D. Spitzer, Jodi Wilson, and Mark E. Wojcik, Law Students and Cell Phone Use: Results of a Six-School Survey, 89 UMKC L. Rev. 269 (2020).
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).