Teaching Thinking: Piloting Advanced Legal Reasoning through Inverted Learning

The four principles of Inverted Learning viz. (1) first exposure responsibility; (2) support for experimentation; (3) expectation of mastery; and (4) humanization of the classroom inculcate the virtues of intellectual autonomy intellectual courage intellectual humility and intellectual charity respectively are valuable in the development of capacity for legal reasoning but their usefulness goes beyond this specific context. This article explains the principles of Inverted Learning outlines their application in Advanced Legal Reasoning and concludes by suggesting their transferability to other disciplinary contexts where critical thinking is a key intellectual ambition.

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This paper was presented at the 2019 European Learning & Teaching Forum and reflects the views of the named authors only.