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Open the Family Courts to the Public.

Open Family Court run by WBUR Boston's NPR News Station

OpenCourt is an experimental project run by WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, that uses digital technology to make Quincy District Court more accessible to the public. Anyone with an internet connection will be able to see and hear what goes on in court.

Note: We post video of court proceedings to our public archive at the end of the second day following the livestream, as described in our current guidelines.

Rethinking How the Law Is Taught

A recent Times editorial called for changes to legal education. It argued for “apprentice-style learning” and “more courses that train students” for roles as “advocates and counselors, negotiators and deal-shapers, and problem-solvers” instead of a curriculum where professors grill “students about appellate cases.”

Does the Socratic method still have a role in law school?

DEBATERS

Defining What’s Socratic

GUY-URIEL CHARLES, DUKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

The case and question method continues to be useful, particularly in the first year of law school.
A Teaching Style of the Past

ROBIN WEST, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER

While the teaching method can be entertaining, it does not instill respect for law and critical acuity.
Limitations to the Method

ROBERT D. DINERSTEIN, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

Socratic teaching needs to be supplemented by experiential pedagogies that provide real-world context.
Keep the Method, Not the Focus

DAVID WILKINS, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

Concentrating on court decisions and legal doctrine no longer reflects the global complexity of law.
It Keeps the Student Thinking

AMANDA C. PUSTILNIK, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND LAW SCHOOL

This question-based teaching keeps our minds from filling in blanks, which is natural to do but dangerous.

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