A view from the flip side: Using the "inverted classroom" to enhance the legal information literacy of the international LL.M. Student

Law Library Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 461-491

  Lemmer, Catherine A ^a  

^a Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis   (United States)

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