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"I think what encourages people is nothing they gain from being here, but attitudes they come in with," says Cassandra Q. Butts, a second-year student at Harvard. "And people often come in with an interest in public interest, but with the emphasis here on corporate law, they don't...
Even though this array of projects suggests an artist who refuses to specialize, who doesn't see limits, who, perhaps most important, doesn't want to be forever categorized as the "designer of the Viet Nam memorial," her approach to her work is intrinsically the same as it has always...
"They never did have a faculty perspective--they are more concerned with teaching and the educational experience," says Clark. "There needs to be a greater emphasis on published research and its contribution to society's understanding about the law."
Although some students have argued that the renewed emphasis on faculty research may detract from the faculty's focus on students, professors say teaching is not in jeopardy.
Clark's emphasis on faculty research is currently centered on the school's international legal studies programs. And his plans to bolster area studies centers have been bolstered with the faculty's recent vote to offer a tenured post to a top Chinese law expert, William Alford.