Philosophical and cultural basis of the main methods of legal education in the USA

The article aims to provide an overview of the most popular law teaching methods in the USA (Langdell’s Case Study together with Socratic Method, Clinical Legal Education, and Problem Solving Method) with reference to the cultural context and philosophical background. First, the characteristic features of the American legal culture with regard to teaching law and ideological grounds of the American legal education are presented. Then the methods are discussed together with the context in which they were developed and the arguments for implementing them.