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...despite landing in the middle of a historic legal drama, Hamdan is largely unknown to the American public. It remains unclear whether he was a dedicated lieutenant of bin Laden's--"a body man for bin Laden," as one of the government's lawyers once described him to me--or, as his defense lawyers claim, little more than a lowly foot soldier. I have been following Hamdan's story since early 2004, when I started writing a book about his case, and have spent hundreds of hours interviewing his lawyers, his family, his mentor and his interrogator. From these conversations...
...starting in May 2009, its law school will offer an accelerated J.D. program to be completed in two years instead of the traditional three. The Chicago school, which will continue to offer a three-year program as well, is not the first to let some students fast-track their legal education. The University of Dayton School of Law and Southwestern Law School, in Los Angeles, already have two-year express tracks. But as the first top-tier law school - ranked ninth in the country by U.S. News & World Report - to offer the program, Northwestern could be especially influential in getting...
...response to critics who say the third year of law school is often pointless, since by that stage most law students already have jobs lined up and care more about socializing than getting good grades. Some schools have responded by offering more externships, study-abroad programs and legal clinics to give real-world experience during that third year...
...even proponents of accelerated programs note that there are drawbacks. With only one summer to work, students don't have a lot of time to experiment or figure out the kind of legal career they want to pursue. And those who fall behind in classes don't have much time to catch up. "This is not for everybody," says Lisa Kloppenberg, dean of the University of Dayton School of Law, who has overseen the school's two-year program. "It's very intense...
...make up the military-justice community have felt dissed as a group and are feeling, perhaps, emboldened as a group," he says. Yet Fidell says he takes solace from Allred's decision. "My concern over the run-up to this is that we would wind up watching the legal equivalent of a cult movie, where everybody knows the next line," he says. "This shows it's not a cult movie, although that's not saying very much. But at least it's not an exercise in legal somnambulism...