Word: third-year
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...staff that churns out this cut-rate research consists of 50 lawyers, most of them under 30, and some 150 third-year law students who work part-time...
...competition resulting from a pass-fail grading system, makes for an informality in classroom instruction that contrasts with the larger lecture halls, assigned seating arrangements, and distant faculty of more traditional law schools. The first-year class is divided into two sections with sixty students apiece; the second and third-year classes range anywhere from ten to thirty students. Professors are thus more accessible to students, and in the classroom there is ample opportunity to participate in discussions...
...legal process took so long though that third-year student DeFunis was scheduled to graduate this spring no matter how the Supreme Court ruled. To the disappointment of the braced opponents, five of the Justices seized on this factual quirk and declared the case moot because DeFunis' law-school status no longer presented a controversy. The minority contended that the court was really "straining to rid itself of this dispute...
...Politics had already picked a new director--Jonathan Moore, a former high federal official closely associated with Elliot L. Richardson '41--students at the Institute were up in arms about the failure to talk to them first. Some members of the Student Advisory Committee--in cluding Harold Fitzpatrick, a third-year law student and its chairman--sharply critized the Institute for making a decision substantially influencing its future without consulting the people that future would presumably be designed for. "At the same time that they're giving so much weight to what students say one short-term programs," Fitzpatrick complained...
...example, Harold J. Fitzpatrick, a third-year law student who chairs the institute's Student Advisory Committee, called the appointment a reflection of a long-term decision on the Institute's future, in which he said students deserved to have a voice...