Recently, a class of mine engaged in a debate regarding whether video games have a place in libraries, and in education generally. While most law students would agree that law school is no game, that needn't be the case. In fact, Gregory Silverman, the writer of a chapter for Legal Education in the Digital Age, argues that Law Games might be just the way to save an endangered legal education system. Games are already used to train "doctors, engineers, military commanders, troops, firefighters, first responders, police, policy analysts, airline pilots, fighter pilots, restaurant and wait staff, and business managers." Professor Silverman argues that games can help to solve the following four criticisms of legal education in its current form:
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L. Rubin ed., Cambridge University Press 2012).
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