One of the key distinctions between college and law school is the way classes are taught, and legal education experts say aspiring lawyers need to mentally prepare themselves for the intensity of a ...

Among the many teaching techniques I am not good at (yet) is asking good questions. I’m trying to cut down on GWOMM questions, I do OK at getting some discussion going, and I can generally ask a ...

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 ...

If you’re reading this and grew up going to Western schools, you might remember your teachers following this basic formula: Explain a subject from the blackboard, ask the kids questions that test ...

To every received truth there are exceptions. For example, it is often said that you can’t judge a book by its cover. But in the case of “The Socratic Method,” you can. Written by Ward Farnsworth, a ...