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...representative on the committee overhauling the First-Year Lawyering (FYL) Program, a full-year course that is roughly analogous to the College’s expository writing requirement for freshmen, said he was pressured to resign from the panel due to his membership in the Board of Student Advisers (BSA). Second- and third-year law students in BSA now serve as teaching assistants in the introductory course...
...committee’s co-chair, Fairchild Professor of Law Andrew L. Kaufman ’51, said in an interview yesterday that the presence of a BSA member on the panel would prevent a “frank and open discussion” of the group’s role...
...April, the Law School faculty overwhelmingly endorsed a proposal that could diminish the BSA teaching assistants’ role, voting to double the number of professional lecturers teaching first-year law students in the course...
Kaufman said that move would halve class sizes, but it would also reduce the need for students in teaching assistant roles. The faculty also voted to hire non-BSA members for teaching assistant jobs—a decision which the group vehemently protested...
...School Dean Elena Kagan said in an interview yesterday that she supported the committee’s decison to ask for Cox’s resignation. Kaufman and Kagan both said an earlier committee that drafted the FYL overhaul proposal in the spring had also barred BSA members. “The precedent was set last year,” Kaufman said...