本文对美国案例教学法产生的背景、理论基础进行考察，较为详细地分析了它的优点其存在的一些缺陷，有助于在我国法学教育中取其精华，去其糟粕。
This article reviews the background and the rationale underlying the Case Method, analyzes its merits and limitations, which helps us assimilate the essence and reject the dross.
在2011年美国邮政署 （USPS）的一项案例研究中，该机构强调其庞大的基础设施是遭遇灾难或恐怖袭击时需要使用的“联邦独有资产”。
In a 2011 USPS case study, the agency emphasized its massive infrastructure as a "unique federal asset" to be called upon in a disaster or terrorist attack.
在另一个案例中，美国考古学家家雷内·米利恩和乔治·考吉尔花了数年时间，系统地测绘了位于墨西哥河谷的整个特奥蒂瓦坎市，即现在的墨西哥城附近。
In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.
类似的案例还有一位沙特富豪起诉一位美国作家，诉因是其在美国出版的书中的一些言论，而此书也在英国有少量的销售。
In a similar case a wealthy Saudi sued an American author for claims made in a book published in America which sold a handful of copies in Britain.
美国一些州还通过了《消费常识法》，旨在让地方法庭拒绝受理肥胖诉讼案例。
A number of American states have passed “common-sense consumption laws” aimed at deterring obesity cases in local courts.
在不多案例中，评级机构下调像美国这样仍然拥有投资人信任国家，他们也一直是错误的。
And in those rare cases where rating agencies have downgraded countries that, like America now, still had the confidence of investors, they have consistently been wrong.
但关系数千个美国工作岗位，这一案例仍然是热点争端。
But with thousands of American jobs on the line, the case is still the focus of heated debate.
从涵盖了美国60%的住宅抵押市场庞大的数据库背景里，经济学家查看了一份抵押贷款案例。
The economists looked at a sample of mortgages in a huge data set that covers 60% of America's residential-mortgage market.
它提供了300多个美国海岸受缺氧影响的水体综合清单。在八个案例研究中，突出介绍了一系列受缺氧影响有代表性的生态系统。
It provides a comprehensive list of the more than 300 U.S. coastal water bodies affected by hypoxia and, in eight case studies, highlights a range of representative ecosystems affected by hypoxia.
唐的母亲当初只是想让她上一所美国的大学，因此他们去了好几十家中介机构，耐心地听他们的豪言壮语和成功案例。
Tang's mother wanted her to attend college in the United States, and so they visited the offices of a dozen or more agents, patiently listening to their promises and stories of success.
美国民众自由协会告知国会，在最近的一个案例中FBI为了寻找一名嫌犯的数据，不惜撒网筛选了180位民众的数据。
The ACLU recently told Congress of a case in which, while looking for data on a suspect, the FBI apparently used a dragnet approach and took data on another 180 people.
到目前为止，还没有出现人类因为食用美国牛肉感染疯牛病的案例。
There has never been a documented human case of such brain disease linked to consumption of U.S. beef.
据报道，今年4月中至今，美国已有145宗由圣保罗沙门氏菌引起的沙门氏菌病案例，其中至少有23人因病情严重而住院。
Since mid April, there have been 145 reported cases of salmonellosis caused by Salmonella Saintpaul nationwide, including at least 23 hospitalizations.
同时，在遭到美国入侵五年后，伊拉克似乎已经成为一个失败的案例。
Meanwhile, Iraq seemed a lost case five years after the US invasion.
一个来自美国的轰动一时的案例则强调了杠杆比率过大带来的某种潜在风险。
A high-profile example from America highlights one potential risk of so much debt.
最著名的案例是1803年美国以1500万美元（相当于今天的3亿1200万美元）从拿破仑手中购得路易斯安那的土地。
The United States’ 1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from Napoleon for $15m (now $312m) is the most famous case.
但是争论最凶的问题还是美国进口牛肉的问题。在03年美国发生的疯牛病案例后被停止进口。
But the most heated issue has been the renewed imports of American beef, which were halted locally after the discovery of a case of mad cow disease in the United States in 2003.
委内瑞拉外长也称这是“美国在国际联合反恐行动中双重标准的代表性案例”。
Venezuela’s foreign ministry said it was “an emblematic case of the United States’ double standard in the international fight against terrorism.”
而后她就职于美国联邦地方法院。作为一个审判官，她在那里工作了6年，主持了上百案例。
She was appointed to the U.S. District Court, serving six years as a trial judge where she presided over hundreds of cases.
美国近50年的大多的马铃薯致死案例是因为吃了绿色的马铃薯或者喝了马铃薯叶子茶。
The majority of cases of death by potato in the last fifty years in the USA have been the result of eating green potatoes or drinking potato leaf tea.
所有这些案例中贷款登记簿无一没有崩溃——美国从最高点到最低点跌落了50%，日本跌落了30%，瑞典则为25%——即使不考虑信贷损失，收入也极大的减少了。
Loan books collapsed in all cases (by 50% from peak to trough in America, 30% in Japan and 25% in Sweden), greatly reducing earnings even before credit losses were taken into account.
而在北爱尔兰，去年有12起报告的案例，牵涉20名儿童，这些儿童被带至爱尔兰共和国、美国、以色列、德国、芬兰、波兰和法国。
In Northern Ireland last year there were 12 reported instances, involving 20 children taken to the Republic of Ireland, the USA, Israel, Germany, Finland, Poland and France.
此前死亡案例都发生在德国，还有329个已经确认收到感染的病例，现在美国也出现三名毒黄瓜受害者。
All the deaths have occurred in Germany, where there are 329 confirmed infections, but cases have now spread to the US -where three victims have been identified.
而且，案例分析作为商学院最常用的教学方法只是在美国广为盛行。
And case studies, the common method of teaching at business school, are notoriously America-centred.
这件案例是少数其中一个美国商人恐惧又满怀希望的案例。
It is one of several cases which American businesses are watching with a mixture of fear and hope.
这件案例是少数其中一个美国商人恐惧又满怀希望的案例。
It is one of several cases which American businesses are watching with a mixture of fear and hope.
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