One possibility, Rakoff says, is moving some HLS housing across the river to Allston, where there has been talk of creating a graduate school "village."
The reduction of class size also means that classrooms will have to be reformatted, since they are currently designed for 130 people, not 80.
In the Future
Its been over a century since changes this dramatic swept HLS, Coquillette says, and Zittrain predicts a bright future for the school, though he says that if the changes do not produce the desired result, HLS is not averse to backtracking.
"If we feel we've tweaked something that's best left alone, one could return to it," he says.
HLS is not looking back. Support among the faculty is strong, the students seem to want a change-all signs point to go.
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