The eternal dichotomy between the master class and practical teaching or the case method in the teaching of Law

Abstract

The implementation of the European Higher Education Area in Spain has given us a golden opportunity for reflection, for a “rethinking” of the way in which Law had been taught in our universities until then. And this translates into the need to position ourselves in the eternal dichotomy between the master class (as the traditional method par excellence of teaching Law) and the case method (as the main example of practices classes, understood in a broad sense, as a tool for facilitate the students' acquisition of “competences, abilities and skills” in the area covered in each Law course).

               In this doctrinal article we try to provide a possible solution to this dichotomy, analyzing the main characteristics of each type of teaching methodology, in order to then be able to position ourselves on the convenience of using each of them.