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...Harvard Law faculty is postponing judgment on the experiment until after a thorough evaluation planned for the spring. "It's proceeding just the way a new educational approach should proceed, on a pilot project basis," Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 said last week...
...James Vorenberg '49, dean of the Law School, recently set guidelines seeking to create a delicate balance between a professor's academic and non-academic work. According to the guidelines, a law professor should spend no more that 20 percent of his working time on nonacademic activities. "But the guidelines are fairly indefinite." Nesson believes, adding "Does 'working time' include nights or weekends...
...lack of classroom participation in the second and third year classes prompted the law faculty's controversial decision last year to grade in-class participation. But Vorenberg in effect blamed apathy among second- and third-year law students on hiring practices. Law Review selection, and other factors that make the last two years of Law School anticlimactic...
...Vorenberg suggested that if the faculty revives the issue, tabled last spring, it will consider "the broader goal of increased student interest and incentives in the second and third years...
...School is finally accepting responsibility for what students do after they leave." Professor of Law Richard D. Parker said yesterday about Vorenberg's speech. "The situation has been crying out for a very long time...