Word: experimental
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One hundred and forty of the nation's top college graduates arrived at the Law School a month ago to find they were the guinea pigs in an experiment that professors say may change the way people think about law.
For the students, the experiment is a risky way to spend one-third of their Law School stay. But for the quartet of professors, the experiment is the first step towards an entirely new approach to legal education.
The subject of all this excitement is the traditional first-year curriculum, founded at the end of the last century and continued, despite increasing criticism, to the present day. In this experiment, the Law School is beginning to tamper with the once sacrosanct first-year program.
(The fifth required first-year course, Criminal Law, is being taught in the traditional manner by Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz. The class is thought of as the experiment control group.)
Muldoon, the former chairman of the Joint Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, called Bretton Woods "the most remarkable economic experiment the world had ever seen or has seen since," but added that a new agreement should be tailored to the problems of the '80s...