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Shift in Harvard Curriculum

By jlutz99

The National Law Journal, October 24, 2006, has published the article Shift in Harvard Curriculum Reflects Larger Trend Toward Global Law. Harvard Law School has announced sweeping changes in its first-year curriculum:

Harvard's new course on legislation and regulation will focus on the separation of powers, the legislative process, statutory interpretation, administrative agency practice and more. For the global legal systems course, students will choose one of three classes: public international law, international economic law and comparative law.

Students will take the problems and theories course after they complete their first term. It will include solving problems from simulated case studies. Harvard will accommodate the changes by reducing the number of class hours in torts, contracts, civil procedure, criminal law and property, and by adding a new January term for first-year students for the problem-solving course. It will implement the changes over the next three years.

Read the article here.

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on October 25, 2006 (boomark / email).