Students are instructed in the use of the system and have to solve cases using the explicit method. The program will not give instruction. The program has the function of a coach who watches the student solving cases and will interfere when necessary. In this article some issues involved in the building of such a system for legal education will be discussed. The Provincial Corporation for Mental Health in Limburg which gas an office at Looiersgracht number 8 is very much opposed to the decision of the Burgomaster and aldermen.
Legal problem solving is a common method used in Dutch legal education.
The legal cases are used as a particular problem situation for which a student has to find a juridically sound solution. The idea behind that research is to develop an instructional method to teach students how to solve legal cases. This literature and my own experiences in legal education as a law student have led to the idea that legal education is in need of a way to teach students explicitly how to solve a case. Next to that students need to spend some time to get skilled in solving legal cases. Because there is no time in the formal curriculum to spend on training students in this skill a computer tool could be a way out.