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...Harvard Law faculty’s unanimous endorsement of extensive first-year curriculum reforms last week could strengthen Law School Dean Elena Kagan’s chances at becoming the University’s next president, law professors said yesterday...
...plan marks the most sweeping revisions to the school’s first-year curriculum since the tenure of Dean Christopher C. Langdell, who introduced the case method and Socratic cold-calling to legal education...
...Harvard Law faculty unanimously approved sweeping revisions to the school’s first-year curriculum in a closed-door meeting yesterday afternoon, professors confirmed last night. The vote marked the culmination of two years of work by Dean Elena Kagan and the review’s chief architect, Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, as well as several other professors and administrators...
...School officials—including Kagan and Minow—did not respond to requests for comment last evening. But Petrie Professor of Law Einer R. Elhauge ’82 said the century-old first-year curriculum covering traditional common law topics—contracts, torts, property, civil procedure, and criminal law—will be constricted, and courses on policy (“Legislation and Regulation”) and international law (“International Law and Problems and Theories”) will be added...
...review marks one of the most dramatic changes in the first-year subjects since the standard first-year offerings which are now used across the country were pioneered at the Law School over 100 years ago by onetime Dean Christopher C. Langdell, Harvard College Class...