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...John C. Cratsley, Lecturer on Law, said Monday that his seminar, The Judicial process in Community Courts, marks the first time that the Law School has offered a course centering on district courts...
...students enrolled in the program meet with Cratsley every Tuesday night for two hours, and will spend eight hours a week as part-time volunteer law clerks for district court judges in the Boston area, for which they receive four Law School credits...
...Cratsley, who is also a special justice in Roxbury Municipal Court, said he hopes that "the field work will make a vital input into the learning process," adding that the district courts are "another aspect of our judicial system which deserve examination...
...Cratsley said that he is also offering the course with the intent of expanding the Law School's "clinical offerings." The only other clinical course now beings offered places students with the Cambridge Public Housing Authority...
...aware of any program involving so novel an interaction between the curriculum and the lowest courts," Cratsley said. He said the only similar program he knew of in the past allowed students to act as observers in Superior Court...