A lot of academics debate how large a class can be and still have effective professor-student discussions (whether the teaching is Socratic or lecture-style). What's your view - is 50 about right? Do you think there's greater value in classes as small as 8-12 or is that too much like "hard work"?

I've got an online poll which suggests people prefer smaller classes, but if you've got an opinion, do vote! http://itme2008.blogspot.com/ (left hand column)

7 votes so far and "the smaller the better" seems to be the most popular. Do vote!

I've never known a seminar group to have 51-100 students (though perhaps it will become the norm for English uni's in the coming years...)

If an LL.M. seminar goes above 40 students, I hope they would lay on extra small group seminars to enable greater interaction with the professor? When I took my LL.M. at London (many years ago) we had groups up to 60-70, but smaller seminars to make that less like undergrad teaching.

We've had 12 votes so far - and it seems 2-20 is the preferred size.

15 votes and 11-20 seems optimum - keep voting!

Does anyone know NU LLM class size? thanks