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Exploring The Invisible Curriculum: Clinical Fieldwork In American Law Schools, Marc Stickgold

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The Harvard Report makes a number of recommendations to cure problems in legal education. I mean to focus on but one of them. The committee's Final Report concludes that clinical experience ought to be a substantial part of legal education. It discusses suggestions on how this can best be accomplished at Harvard. My focus is narrower. I will address the possibilities of developing the extemship model, ratherthan the "in-house" model, to resolve some of these "deeply troubling" curricular problems.

This article will probably raise more questions than it answers, but it will continue the process of replacing educational "neglect" with …