Clinical legal history: Simulation of Athenian Court - a new teaching method

Abstract

Although other questions can arise as well, it seems that the positive aspects of this teaching method outbalance all potential objections. The possibility of its application in courses of Roman law makes it even more important and relevant. This educational technique can simultaneously make legal history more interesting for contemporary students and more acceptable for law faculties and educational authorities of our days. If it can help in this context to preserve legal history in the curricula of European law faculties, with its all other advantages for legal education, the simulation of ancient courts appears as a teaching method of multifaceted benefit.

Keywords

• study of legal history
• roman law
• new approaches and new methods of teaching of old topic