January 26, 2001
Kicking the Socratic Method and Other Reforms for Law Schools
To paraphrase the former Yale Law School professor Fred Rodell, there are only two things wrong with conventional law-school teaching. One is style; the other is content.
The dominant classroom approach at most law schools is a combination of lecture and Socratic dialogue, with a focus on doctrinal analysis. Although abusive questioning styles that once were associated with Socratic methods have largely vanished, the increase in civility has deflected attention from more-fundamental
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