Word: laws
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...Mississippi native and himself a graduate of Ole Miss Law School, Morse returned, luring five Yale law grads down to join his faculty. Other out-of-staters also came to teach. One more index of change was that last year there were no fewer than 15 Negroes in the student body...
More than any other institution, the University of Mississippi Law School has shaped the laws of its state. Graduates dominate the state Supreme Court, state bar and make up a quarter of the legislature. Few out-of-state professors ever strayed to Ole Miss until early in the civil rights movement, and then a couple of events almost knocked it loose from its antebellum attitudes...
...James Meredith shook the uni versity by becoming an undergraduate; a year later the law school got a new dean, Joshua Morse III, now 45. Morse began his reign by taking a year off and going north to Yale Law School for graduate study...
Legislators who grump about "socialistic, if not Communistic, doctrines at the law school" have finally found an excuse for striking out at the new spirit. Three faculty members became involved in an Office of Economic Opportunity legal-services program. When they took on a school-desegregation suit in one Mississippi county and another suit challenging the residency requirements of the state's welfare laws, the mossbacks reacted with a vengeance. The legislature leaned on the state board of higher education, which pressured the university's chancellor, who in turn forced a crackdown by Law Dean Morse. Though...
...year. Out-of-state faculty recruiting has been curtailed, and as the remaining outsiders move on, they are not likely to be replaced. Morse himself has not yet been sacked, but there are rumors that he may be. Laments Yaleman Michael Trister, a dropout: "The great experiment at the law school is almost dead...