Stanford Law Completed First Phase of its Legal Curriculum Reform

Yesterday, Stanford Law announced that it completed the first phase of reforms to its legal curriculum. The school started theses changes in 2006.

Stanford Law School’s JD program preserves the essential components of a rich, traditional legal curriculum while leveraging the rest of Stanford University to enable law students to understand their future clients’ needs through courses and joint degree programs coordinated with Stanford’s other top-rated graduate programs and departments. Students also develop sophisticated problem-solving skills through multi-disciplinary project courses, which present real-world business and policy problems, and they are exposed to professional practice through full-time work in a clinic that offers experience in a wide range of practice areas—from Supreme Court litigation to corporate transactional law.

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Interesting. Thoughts?