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...after years of planning, HLS has finally formalized joint degree arrangements with the economics and government departments, while also laying the groundwork for an innovative cooperative effort that will allow law students to graduate with a doctorate in health policy...
Meanwhile, Kagan said that the Law School is taking preliminary steps toward establishing a joint-degree program with Harvard’s Graduate School of Design—and perhaps with MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning as well. But she said that the process is “still in the talking stages,” and she doesn’t expect the schools to finalize arrangements by next year—“unless we’re superhuman...
...joint degree program between the Law School and FAS has been in the works since even before Kagan became dean of the school two years ago. “I have been the lucky recipient of a lot of planning that was done under” former HLS Dean Robert C. Clark, Kagan said...
Joseph P. Newhouse ‘63, who is chairman of the Committee on Higher Degrees in Health Policy, wrote in an e-mail last week that he knows of no other school that has established a joint program between law and health policy, “although I wouldn’t want to stake my life on the issue that we are the first.” So far, one student has applied to the joint program, Newhouse wrote...
Meanwhile, joint degree students—although they will spend five semesters in residence at the Law School instead of six—“will graduate having met all the same J.D. requirements as our other students,” HLS Assistant Academic Dean Catherine Claypoole said in an interview last month...