Articles for tag: Law School Admissions, Socratic Method

Karla News

Tips for Your First Year of Law School

You’ve taken the LSAT, registered with the LSDAS, applied to several law schools and you have just received your acceptance to one of them. Come this fall, you will be a first year law student. Celebrate! You have every right to be happy, excited, thrilled and beside yourself with joy. You’re also entitled to be ...

Karla News

Thinking Critically About Virtualization

I think that many of us use the processes of critical thinking but we just don’t put a name on it. I also think that a good way to describe the process is that critical thinkers ask questions when evaluating a source. Basically, critical thinking is a reflective type of thinking that aims at proper ...

Karla News

Should Classroom Teachers Employ the Socratic Method?

I was surprised when I read the trial of Socrates. What surprised me were the similarity between Socrates trial and what he was accused of, and the Scopes trial of the 1920s. In both trials the accused were accused of teaching against the Gods. During Socrates apology, he was accused of teaching that the SUN ...

Karla News

Plato’s Republic Vs. Aristotle’s The Politics

Plato was the master, Aristotle the student who history recognizes as the heir to Plato’s Philosopher King throne. Plato’s Republic , strives to construct an ideal city state where-as Aristotle’s work is more grounded in reality. Comprised of lectures and notes put together by Aristotle’s students The Politics first critiques Plato and then goes on ...

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Campbell University Law School Review

Campbell University, located in Buies Creek, North Carolina, is tucked away in the cotton fields of Central North Carolina, about 45 minutes outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1976, the law school admitted 97 students as their charter class. Since then, Campbell has built upon the excellence and tradition started three decades ago. Today, the ...