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Case method

The case method is a teaching approach that uses decision-forcing cases to put students in the role of people who were faced with difficult decisions at some point in the past. It developed during the course of the twentieth-century from its origins in the casebook method of teaching law pioneered by Harvard legal scholar Christopher C. Langdell. In…

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Comparison with the casebook method of teaching law

Decision-forcing cases

Criticisms of decision-forcing cases

Decision-forcing staff rides

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Published case materials

The Case Centre

Use of the case method in professional schools

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Case method

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related to Literature · 47
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Case method → teaching approach that uses decision-forcing cases to put students in the role of people who were faced with difficult decisions at some point in the past

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