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...property law, that has stood as the hallmark of first year American legal education to this day. Although Harvard can all too easily rest on its laurels, it is refreshing to see such decisive action emanating from the legal scholars here in Cambridge. We commend HLS Dean Elena Kagan and the HLS faculty for ensuring that our University can act as a harbinger of change for higher education. Over the next three years, HLS plans to condense the standard first-year offerings first put in place by Langdell, Harvard College Class of 1850, and introduce courses in international and comparative...
...What is new is the breadth and scope of the changes,” Kagan said...
...curriculum late last year. The revisions are an effort to add focus to the later years by creating optional, guided tracks of study for students who wish to specialize in some area of the law. In the past, students had spent their upper-class years primarily taking introductory courses, Kagan said, and so the new tracks will allow for a “progression through the three years...
...speed with which the revisions were approved—and the fact that no professor cast a dissenting vote—highlights what many law professors have described as Kagan’s ability to modernize the Law School while still building consensus. In addition to the curricular revisions, Kagan, who was appointed by then-University President Lawrence H. Summers in 2003, has also launched a $400 million capital campaign, laid plans for a new 250,000 square-foot building north of Pound Hall, and increased the size of the faculty primarily by luring tenured professors from other universities...
...Kagan has been mentioned as a potential candidate for University president. An online gambling site gives her 3-to-1 odds at securing the post...