S3, Ep. 2: Does Law School Deliver?
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December 5, 2022 · 40 min · Season 3 · Episode 2
About this episode
This episode investigates the effectiveness of traditional law school teaching methods and explores potential reforms in legal education.
It’s time to take your seat inside the prestigious legal classroom, where law professors teaching a century-old curriculum engage in Socratic dialogue to shape you into thinking like a lawyer. But is that the most effective way of teaching, for all students? On this episode of Law360 Explores: The Law School Promise, we investigate how outdated methods like one final exam and cold calling can negatively impact students, and some of the ways that legal education reforms could change the curriculum for the better.
Topics covered
- legal education
- law school curriculum
- Socratic method
- student impact
- education reform
Keywords
- law professors
- final exam
- cold calling
- curriculum change
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