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- Title
Inside the Law School Classroom: Toward a New Legal Realist Pedagogy.
- Authors
Mertz, Elizabeth
- Abstract
The article describes a study of the linguistic interactions between law professors and students in the first year classes of eight different law schools in the U.S. The author found that professors use the Socratic Method to re-focus student attention from questions of content to questions of authority. In discussing cases, professors insist on precise identification authority issues, sometimes to the point of demanding an exact repetition of the opinion's language, but encourage a highly speculative reconstruction of the litigants' underlying interaction that converts it into legal discourse. She also found that women and minority students participate less frequently in classroom discussions unless the faculty member is also a woman or minority group member.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LAW students; LEGAL education; LAW school curriculum; LAW teachers; EDUCATIONAL innovations; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; DISCUSSION; PARTICIPATION; MINORITY students
- Publication
Vanderbilt Law Review, 2007, Vol 60, Issue 2, p483
- ISSN
0042-2533
- Publication type
Article