What are students classroom experiences like?
Our foreign LL.M.’s experience an American legal education in the true sense. Unlike many other LL.M. Programs, where courses are generally taught by adjunct faculty and where students exclusively take classes with other, often foreign LL.M.’s, the students in the American Law Program take classes with JD students and are generally taught by full-time faculty. They are expected to participate in these classes like other students, which means taking part in the “Socratic” teaching method. This teaching method involves an interactive dialogue with the professor who questions students about the case materials (instead of “lecturing” the students about the topic). Students not only learn the substance of American law, but they also learn what it is like to be trained as an American lawyer. This perspective is invaluable for any foreign attorney who expects to interact with American-trained lawyers in his/her career. At BU Law, class size ranges from under twenty students (in seminars, for
