Word: ferren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ferren Maclntyre...
...school legal aid project, CLAO is particularly susceptible to the charge of using the community solely for its own research and educational purposes. Former director Ferren rejects this notion and says that there is no conflict between CLAO's service to the community and its education of students. CLAO was founded, Ferren said, on the concept that "only through legal service do we have a way of learning what the legal problems...
...school faculty still retains a committee on CLAO which is formally responsible for the CLAO grant. Ferren, who heads the committee, was one of the persons responsible for creating the community board. It was "just not right" for CLAO formally to make the decisions about the community, he said, "If a university law school is in any way going to get involved in a service venture you simply want to cut the community in formally...
...MOST difficult aspect of CLAO's connection to Harvard appears when clients ask CLAO to represent them in cases against Harvard. Ferren says that CLAO has no set policy on these cases, but that it has represented a number of cases whose interests are adverse to the university...
...Ferren says of it. "It is ironic that when the heat comes on a university it is easy to point out to the community all of the projects which happen to be going for the benefit of the local community when those projects have only happened because a few individuals in the different schools wanted them...