LSAT 29, Reading Comprehension, Q26, LSATHacks

RC Question 26 Explanation, by LSATHacks

DISCUSSION: This is a common LSAT trick. You won’t find the answer on lines 37-38. Those lines mention “relevant scholarship”. You have to look back and see what “relevant scholarship” refers to. 

It’s found in two places, in the lines above. First: we need to translate, publish and analyze medieval court records. (lines 29-31)

The other possibility is at the end of the first paragraph: We need quantitative analysis of these court records, to let us see their effects on women.

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1. This would be useful, but it isn’t enough. It doesn’t mention looking at a large number of court cases to see how the law affected women.
2. This would also be helpful, but it doesn’t tell us if the historians would study women. 
3. CORRECT. This is the author’s goal: using scholarship to figure out how medieval law affected women in practice. 
4. These are traditional sources. These have already been studied, but we still don’t know how the law affects women. 
5. Existing literature hasn’t let us understand how the law affected women. See lines 1-6.

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