Abstract
Legal teaching has been under fire. This paper argues that the use of active learning methods may reframe the experience of law students and offers an alternative solution to the legal teaching crisis. The described experience is a role-playing game (RPG) dealing with an interdisciplinary issue concerning law and economics: the prohibition of torture. An escalating criminal crisis occurred in 2012 in the State of Santa Catarina inspired the game. This author applied the game, together with another professor, in a simulation within the Integral Law Program (PRODI) at UniCEUB, Brasilia. PRODI has as one of its concerns providing innovative classes for law students. The level of engagement of the students along the simulation and the following debates reinforce the perception of RPG as an alternative path in legal learning. As challenges, RPG preparation requires higher level of professors’ dedication to model the legal issue and less predictable behavior of students.
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