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Stolker describes: “the American approach as bottom-up: by endlessly varying the details of the case, students are forced into the role of the attorney. By contrast, the civil law approach is more top-down: law students invariably start with the codes, supplemented with cases and the doctrine. And though in the course of time civil law and common law legal education have started to overlap in many aspects, this pedagogical difference between the two remains relatively prominent.