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Someone Swung the Sensible Stick!

Great news from BB via email today:

• After the 2009-2010 academic year, all 1L students will take five units of Civ Pro instead of four units (thereby eliminating the need for Civ Pro II).
• Beginning with the class of 2012, students will be required to take 220.6 Constitutional Law, a four-unit class, to graduate.  While they do not have to take it in the first year, but 1Ls will be given priority to get into 220.6 in the second semester of their first year. 
• Beginning now, if there are less than five students registered for a class by June 1, the class will be canceled.  Similarly, if a class has less than 10 students registered by the Friday of the first week of classes, it will be canceled.
  

Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows how much I approve of each of these changes. Civil Procedure and the Constitution are absolutely fundamental to litigation. And litigation is absolutely fundamental to our legal system. Sure, you get something from a curriculum without them. It's not necessarily an education, though.

The full email is posted in the comments.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).