Mini-Course 3-A: Legal Pedagogy in the United States

by Professor Peggy Cooper Davis

June 28, 2010, June 29, 2010
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Legal Pedagogy in the United States
by Peggy Cooper Davis

Legal Pedagogy in the United States will trace the history of training for the legal profession from apprenticeships to contemporary, university-based law schools. Special attention will be given to the Langdellian case method, pioneered at Harvard; to the clinical studies movement; and to simulation methods pioneered at N.Y.U.