Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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condition of earning a degree, a documented legal research paper of a character measured by the standards of a law review article. Most stu- dents write these papers in the greatly expanded ram which allows individual choice seminar prog of subject-matter, but any man who prefers can write under individual instruction of a professor. Any man? In 1950 we began admitting women! International legal studies have been part of the Schoolis interest ever since Story's day, but they began a rapid expansion immediately after World War II ended. The course-offerings in this field multiplied rapidly, qualified faculty and re- search-fellows have been attracted to the School. The International Legal Studies wing, added to Langdell in 1958, tangibly symbolizes this ex- panded concern for matters involving more na- tions than one. While all this has been going forward, domestic law has rightly continued to claim the School's primary attention. Our principal product is the American lawyer in private practice, he must be equipped with the skills required to educate him- self for the problems he will meet in the year 2000 and later-problems the present faculty can only guess at. The faculty must prepare and keep up to date teaching material which serves the developing curriculum. The library must con- tinue to collect and make accessible the explo- sively expanding literature of the law. The School's faculty and students must continue, as they now attempt to do, to keep in touch with allied dis- ciplines of scholarship by such devices as our joint faculty appointments in law and history, law and economics, law and public administra- tion, and others. Students accomplish the same end by cross-registration in other departments. Meantime the mission of the School to prepare advanced scholars in the law is recognized by the programs for the Master's degree and the Doctoral degree, in which each year nearly a hundred young men study for post-LLB. de- grees. Step by step with its academic progress, the School during the last twenty years has become a pleasanter place in which to live and work. The Harkness Center, with its law-dormitories and its dining hall, has increased the amenities of studying law at Harvard to a degree fully under- standable only by those who, in the days before l950, were unable to find a room in Hastings and finally lodged themselves in some unsavory 23

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