Word: legalism
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...article, "Law School Reacts to Truancy Crackdown" (News, Feb. 11), The Crimson erred in reporting that the members of the Legal Education Committee "voted last Friday in favor of a new, mandatory class attendance policy at the Law School." In fact, we voted on no such thing...
...mandatory" class attendance policy. The 1997-1998 catalog contains the following language: "Classwork is essential to the educational program at the Law School. Regular attendance at classes and participation in classwork are expected of all students." The wisdom of this "mandatory" attendance policy was not at issue in the Legal Education Committee's deliberations last semester...
Indeed, the only issue before the Legal Education Committee was whether the administration of the attendance policy required reform. Specifically, it became apparent that the administrative requirement that a student receive written notice of his or her attendance policy violation before any disciplinary action may be taken rendered the attendance policy ineffective in some cases and functioned generally so as to make the policy's enforcement inequitable...
...prevent this administrative oversight, the Legal Education Committee voted to eliminate the individual written requirement. In its place, the Committee proposed language (and drafted guidelines) which provided general notice of the meaning behind the (previously implemented) attendance policy: any student missing more than roughly 25 to 30 percent of classes may be considered in violation of the attendance policy...
...writer is a member of the Legal Education Committee of Harvard Law School...