Education Law
Aug. 5, 2024
The Problem Method Part IV: My mission to Japan
The problem method is superior to the case method used in American law schools, and law professors should adopt this method to better prepare students for legal practice.
My first two columns on the problem method described how I came to adopt this way of teaching law students, and my difficulties in persuading my American colleagues to adopt this novel but superior way of preparing our students to practice law. I had hoped that my article, “Beyond the Case Method: It’s Time to Teach with Problems,” 42 Journal of Legal Education 241 (1992), would persuade them to try it, but inertia and fear of looking bad s...
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