Word: rakoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During these bridge periods, teams of professors present topics that encompass all the core courses such as economic legal analysis and corporate personality. Both professors and students admit however, that the bridge periods are still evolving "The bridge periods feel very experimental." says Professor of Law Todd D. Rakoff '67 a member of the experimental team...
...just how "experimental" the curriculum really is. Although students in Section I often refer to themselves as "guinea pigs," most do not believe that teaching methods are recklessly unproven. "I don't think we're really guinea pigs," says 11 John M. Barr. "It's not too risky," Rakoff agrees...
Nonetheless, one of the major advantages for the professors in the Experimental Section--Michelman, Rakoff, Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz Frankfurter Professor of Constitutional and Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson--is that they "get to work more closely with colleagues," says Rakoff...
...professors, besides teaching side by side during bridge periods, also get together to map out the year-long coordinated for first-year students Similarly students work together more closely in the Experimental Section. Rakoff says And almost all seem to enjoy it more, despite a slightly work load...
...Rakoff agrees that certain professors styles and personalities might not work well in the Experimental Program, and says that having two Experimental Sections next year will be the real test," because it will show whether the success of the current program is a function of professional style or structural superiority...