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Constitutional Law

with Professor Darren Hutchinson

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  This Internet tutorial is designed to give you an introduction to how the Socratic method works in a first year Constitutional Law class in law school. Imagine that you have been assigned to Professor Hutchinson's Constitutional Law class, and that this will be the very first class you attend in law school. Professor Hutchinson has assigned DeShaney v. Winnebago County Dept. of Social Services to his students, a case argued in the Supreme Court of United States. Professor Hutchinson expects that all the students in the class have read the case carefully (which means more than one time for beginning law students) and have done their best to brief the case (write an outline of the legal issues) before coming to class. Professor Hutchinson expects to be able to call on any student in class, and through a series of questions and responses to the student's answers to those questions, help all the students in the class understand the case they have been assigned to read.  
     


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  Last updated: 06/19/07
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