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...major advantage of these bridge periods says Professor of Law Frank I Michelman, is that professors and students "argue back and forth." giving a wider perspective on legal questions...
...Stork") Michelman of New York City, who was indicted but acquitted in 1979 of arranging illegal adoptions, and his frequent collaborator, Thomas Lowndes Jr., a well-known Charleston attorney who handles more than 100 adoptions a year...
These small sections will work out an exercise planned by Michelman, who teaches Property: the students will pretend to be the managing partners of a civil rights law firm, deciding whether to use an economic argument in a particular case...
...single greatest limiting factor, though, is finding four professors as compatible as Chayes. Horwitz, Michelman, and Rakoff. Cooperation is obviously essential, and the months of preparation might not pull every group of professors together as it did the Harvard four. "We were not intimate friends," says Chayes. "We were good colleagues... One of the great surprises is how much fun it's been working with each other...
...theoretical level, the experiment is trying to break out of the doctrinal rut identified by the Michelman Committee last year. That committee studied legal education at Harvard for three years and issued a wide-ranging critical report in spring, 1982, writing that "Most-Committee members find that the more critical hypotheses about the first year...are plausible and troubling enough to warrant further exploration...