Mode of Instruction

The traditional case-method study and analysis will be employed in all courses at the Aristotle University Institute of Law and Jurisprudence. The Socratic dialectic of inquiry, supplemented by didactic instruction and online educational materials, will serve as the general instruction methodology at the Aristotle University Institute of Law and Jurisprudence. Students will learn the principles of legal analysis, the application of substantive law to facts and issues under consideration, and will learn the practical application of abstract principles. Although all instruction in the J.D. and LL.M. programs will be in English, the Aristotle University Institute of Law and Jurisprudence is very cognizant of and sensitive to language barriers which may exist in a multi-national student population. With this in mind, in order to further facilitate student understanding of the law and to promote student correlation of materials presented, the Aristotle University Institute of Law and Jurisprudence may provide, where deemed necessary, official translations of lecture materials in predominant foreign languages, reflective of the student population. These materials will be purely supplemental and are not intended, in anyway, to replace the core English curriculum, but rather to further empower the students and facilitate their learning process. Aristotle University Institute of Law and Jurisprudence students shall be required to utilize and study an array of educational materials; the greater portion of these materials will be made digitally available to them through the integration of the various internet instructional and computerized legal instruction platforms which are integrated within our Aristotle Scholar360 learner management system. In this way, law students will be utilizing and studying e-lessons, e-books, synchronous and asynchronous video/audio chat, and will participate in structured, interactive, e-discussions on an asynchronous discussion board platform (e.g., Aristotle’s Scholar360 learner management system), answering and posing questions to Faculty, and will be required to interact and collaborate with other students and Faculty. In addition to the numerous methods available for communication amongst students and Faculty included within the Aristotle Scholar360 platform, students may also interact with Faculty via e-mail and skype-type telephone calls.