Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday night, and the scene is a familiar one, both on screen and off. On "L.A. Law," photogenic young barristers execute melodramatic cross-examinations. And at Harvard, students live out "fantasy law" with them--en masse...
Without fail, one night a week, 200 to 300 "L.A. Law" groupies leave their law school casebooks behind and gravitate to Harkness Commons to cheer and sneer their idols...
Some come for the law, others for the cheap beer...
...escapism," says Kevin C. Davis, a third-year law student and a regular at the student center viewings. "It's not about the law, it's about yuppiedom--and that's what people like about...
...events at the Law School this fall suggest that many students there would like the legal profession to mean more than just yuppiedom. Students were enraged when Dean Robert C. Clark closed the school's public interest law counseling office over the summer. Hundreds attended a rally protesting his action, and about two-thirds of the student body signed a petition calling for the school to do more to encourage its students to seek careers providing legal aid to the needy...