Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School in the postwar years. It is important, but not vital, that the School's physical plant greatly expanded during his Deanship. Great schools can thrive for a time in inadequate buildings. It is vitally important, however, that the Griswold years saw the faculty, the library and the curriculum grow to meet the needs of the time. New areas of the law had to be studied and to be taught. Old areas of the law required fresh thinking and new approaches. American lawyers were increasingly involved in international problems. Law was for a time at the heart of the struggle...
...School tends to attract the "uncommitted student" who sees a degree in law as a good beginning for any one of a wide spectrum of careers. The Law Schools also attract activist students who are apt to place a good deal of pressure on the Administration to liberalize the curriculum...
...uncommitted law students, and they are sometimes so violently anti-bureaucratic that they cannot endure even the mild constraints and regulation either of the law school or of a government agency; like many talented students today, they suffer from a claustrophobia which resists all constraint, whether of curriculum or language or manners or the compromises of day-to-day legal practice or political life. Believing that feelings count more than facts, intuition more than ideas, some of these students move into a neighborhood law office or legal defender's office--frequently to discover what Peace Corps Volunteers and VISTA workers...
However, it is these service-minded students, along with the intellectual searchers, who put pressure on their law schools to open up the curriculum even more rapidly than their faculties already have done. For these students, law tends to be equated with legalism, and bookishness with dehydration; the slogan about "law in action" may for them signify action more than...
Unfortunately, law schools still offer their curriculum only to those pursuing the LL.B., even though many recognize that law is too important to be left to the legal profession. No law school offers a Ph.D. program in jurisprudence or the role of law; law students are not educated in a context of para-legal persons but in a quite autonomous enclave...