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Currently, the Law School requires students to attend class and gives instructors the power to "delinquent" students who consistently fail to show up. But the instructor is required first to give the student a warning before proceeding to the registrar to have the student removed from the class...
Under the proposal, an instructor can remove a student from the course if he or she has missed a "substantial" number of classes, defined as 25 to 30 percent...
Following this break, the instructor repeats the half-hour introduction given 45 minutes earlier. Students interested in two classes meeting at 10 a.m. can thus catch the full presentation in both courses. This system benefits students, instructors, and the academic calendar in four significant and noteworthy ways...
Third, lectures during FAS shopping period are disturbed by the shuffling of students in and out of the hall as they head to and from other courses of interest. The added noise and commotion can throw a lecture off track and hinder an instructor's presentation. Such shuffling is greatly curtailed by the alternative shopping days system. Students sit attentively throughout the presentation, knowing that time is allotted for them to leave after 30 minutes and catch the other course of interest in full...
...Ramseyer was a Harvard Law School Visiting Professor and received his J.D. magna cum laude in 1982 from HLS. He has also been a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, an associate with Sidley & Austin in Chicago, and an adjunct instructor of law at Tohoku University and Hitotsubashi University in Japan...