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Abstract:
Save the Constitution, the United States’ most famous legal export may well be the case method. This paper pieces together the story of how C.C. Langdell’s brainchild was brought to Singapore, Québec and the rest of the common law world in treading the momentous events and geopolitics of the last century and a half, and reflects on the lessons from this global experiment for the present and future of the case method. As with law itself, the teaching of law is inextricably tied to local contexts and world politics, thus making the future of the case method as difficult to predict as it would have been for Langdell and his contemporaries. Today’s different national and international contexts from that of 1945 could represent an opportunity to reassess the merits of the case method in our more mature legal and educational environments, freed from colonial and neocolonial agendas.

Speaker: Han-Ru Zhou, Universite De Montreal

Venue: Seminar Room 3, Block B, NUS Faculty of Law (Bukit Timah Campus)

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