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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 novel is this experimental section? Only one quarter of the year is actually devoted to integrated bridge period classes. "Who do you think we admit here?" Rakoff asks hypothetically. "They all got 700 on their LSATs. They can fill in 25 percent...
...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...
Despite the excitement of the moment, the professors are aware that their colleagues are not all so enthusiastic. And enthusiasm, they add, is a prerequisite. "It's not the kind of thing you push someone into," says Rakoff...
...four professors are optimistic, and they are not afraid to speculate on the total abolition of the traditional first-year categories. "There are some real problems with throwing them away," says Rakoff. For one, every current lawyer and judge was trained the old way. "It's like bringing people into a religion and teaching them new rituals. Will they be able to relate?"MORTON J. HORWITZ *City College of New York '59, Harvard Ph.D. (Political Science) '64, Harvard Law '67 *Warren Professor of Law, specialist in American Legal History *Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals Justice Spottswood W. Robinson...