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Just one week after Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced that the school would be switching to a pass/fail grading system, details on the transition process for current students remain elusive.
Well, prospective lawyers, you can kiss that “A” in Civil Procedure goodbye. Last week, Harvard Law School (HLS) announced that it would eliminate letter grades by the fall of 2009, adopting an “honors pass/pass/low pass/fail” grading system like those...
The faculty also authorized Kagan to devise a possible plan for implementing the new grading scheme for current students. The Law School will hold a town hall meeting on Thursday for students to express their views on a transition phase.
Law School students expressed mixed views on the new grading scheme. Several said they felt it was unlikely to change their peers’ study habits or employment prospects.
But first-year law student Elizabeth P. Benton said that some students felt the simplified grading system could disadvantage women or minorities in the job hunt—both those applying for jobs at law firms and those who are seeking clerkships for judges—since objective comparisons of...