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After 130 years, the Harvard Law School is finally modernizing its first-year curriculum, by moving away from case studies and toward problem solving, international law and law making by government bodies. The law school faculty voted unanimously for the move.
In the 1870s, Harvard developed its case method, which has remained the standard for first-year law students at many schools across the nation. A committee studied the move for three years before the faculty vote.
"Good God, the first-year curriculum was developed 130 years ago, and it really hasn't changed all that much since," said Elena Kagan, Harvard Law School Dean. "So what we ...