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The fact that the experiment is being conducted this year, and not three or four years ago, indicates the difficulties facing any development of the new system. The ideas that materialized this fall are not new, but it was only this year that four professors committed themselves to the project...
The Harvard Law faculty is postponing judgment on the experiment until after a thorough evaluation planned for the spring. "It's proceeding just the way a new educational approach should proceed, on a pilot project basis," Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 said last week.
It is interesting that although all four professors are fairly liberal, the experiment was not a politically divided issue on the Law faculty. When the plans were presented at a faculty meeting last spring, reaction was for the most part positive, says Secretary to the Faculty Stephen M. Bernardi '52...
On a theoretical level, the experiment is trying to break out of the doctrinal rut identified by the Michelman Committee last year. That committee studied legal education at Harvard for three years and issued a wide-ranging critical report in spring, 1982, writing that "Most-Committee members find that the...
One of the problems is that first-year students learn only-doctrine, without theory on the one hand and clinical hands-on training on the other. The experiment is thus moving in both directions, injecting theory of the law into classes and adding clinical training to the agenda.