BOWLING GREEN, O. — Drs. M. Neil Browne and Stuart Keeley, both Distinguished Teaching Professors at Bowling Green State University, have taken the art of critical thinking and applied it to law in their new book, “Asking the Right Questions about the Legal Environment of Business: A Guide to Critical Thinking,” published by Prentice Hall.

Using research from their book, “Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking,” now in its seventh edition, Keeley and Browne tailored the material to the law classroom and legal reasoning. The book is fact-centered and observation based, according to Browne, and is much more analytical than its parent book. “

Law is concerned with specifics, facts and analogies, and in the book we had to reduce the elements that were not useful in a law classroom,” Browne said. “The book is much more analytical because the process of selecting analogies is important in law.”

Browne, an economist, and Keeley, a psychologist, are now working on a new book with Dr. Wanda Overland, dean of students at BGSU. Tentatively titled, “A Is for Asking: Questions for Student Success,” the book will be targeted to the orientation of first-year students. “

The first year of college is where habits are formed,” Browne said. “We are committed to making a contribution to improving the learning abilities of first year students.”

(Posted December 02, 2003 )