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Epistemology and Teaching Styles:

Different Forms, Same Message

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n this chapter, I discuss how the shared message identified in Chapter 4 was con-
veyed across variations in the teaching styles used by the law professors we
observed, focusing now on the diversity of discursive formats found in these class-
rooms. The chapter concludes with a programmatic outline of the peculiarly legal

approach to texts and human conflict conveyed to all of the law students in the
study, across these divergences.

Different Forms: Lectures, Modified Socratic Exchanges,
and Classroom Conversations

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Prof.: [... ] Why is this far more than () ad and actually an offer, Daniel?

Daniel: Due to the specific language that the ad was in, uh, for example, the

promise is very definite, a hundred pounds reward will be paid by the

Carbolic Smoke Ball Company--

Prof.: --And we’re even depositing that money

in a certain account right now.

Daniel: I was just getting to that.

Prof.: I’m sorry? Oh, I’m sorry.^2

Class: [[laughter]]