Professor Lisa McElroy Compares Medical School Model to Experiential Legal Education in Letter to NYT Editor March 19, 2013 On March 15, the New York Times published a letter by Professor Lisa McElroy in which she discussed the efforts of her and her colleagues to adopt the medical school model of learning by doing. Replying to a New York Times article involving one law school's efforts to create a firm where students can actually practice, McElroy emphasized the importance of experiential education in legal institutions.