Word: hls
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...HLS emerges in the next few years, many professors say that the school’s core will always be the same. “The best thing about this place is the raw material—a fabulous student body and a fabulous faculty,” says recently hired HLS professor William Stuntz, who has also taught at Yale Law School and the University of Virginia Law School. Stuntz says this quality forms the bedrock of HLS and will always distinguish it from other schools. This “raw material,” Stuntz claims, is better...
...others at HLS, perhaps less enthusiastic about borrowing as much strategy from corporate America as Armini, look at his role as primarily educational. “I look at it as less self-promotional than it is hooking the many things going on here with the world at large,” Zittrain says. According to Zittrain, HLS deals—primarily in an academic sense—with “a ton of hotly contested policy issues” and it would be beneficial both to the law school and to the outside world to have a more...
...Gerken’s first impression of HLS upon arriving was how much importance is placed on the quality of teaching, which she says is better than at most other top law schools, where the focus among the faculty is research and writing. One of her collegueas at another law school, she says, told her that teaching ability “was about as important as being able to hit a home run at the faculty softball game...
...Zittrain agrees that the HLS education is top quality, but that there is room for improvement. “The fundamentals are pretty good,” he says. “I can see lots of experimentation within the first year curriculum without disrupting the central features of the Socratic method,” Zittrain says. Zittrain says he hopes the strategic plan, which cuts first year class size by half, could foster increased student-faculty interaction...
...have to make sacrifices. Cutting first year class size in half means that more classes will have to be taught, and many professors will accept a heavier teaching schedule next year. Stuntz says he is impressed by what he calls the “selflessness” of the HLS faculty...