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...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...
...joint degree students whose doctoral dissertations cover subjects related to legal scholarship can use part of their Ph.D writing to satisfy the Law School’s writing requirement, Claypoole said...
...becomes the fourth Harvard school to establish a joint degree arrangement with HLS—and the Design School could become the fifth. Since the early 1970s, students have been able to earn joint degrees in law and business within four years—as opposed to the five that would be required to satisfy HLS and Business School requirements separately. Law students can add a masters of public policy or masters of public administration/international development degree from the Kennedy School in four years instead of the standard five. And with just one extra summer of coursework, law students...