According to Elhauge, the law colleges will be modeled loosely after the house system at Harvard College-although they will not be residential. Each law college will have a master, who will also teach first year classes, in the hopes that they will be better in touch with first year concerns.
These smaller first year sections, called "law colleges" resemble systems at schools like Yale, which only has 150 students in each graduating class, as opposed to 550 at HLS.
The goal of the law colleges, administrators say, is in part to forge a greater social cohesion at HLS and make students feel welcome.
"Harvard law school is a metropolis, not a town," says HLS spokesperson Michael A. Armini.
The trick for HLS is to capture the small community feeling which characterizes a place like Yale Law School and still maintain its broader ties.
Lisa M. Card `01, who will be a first-year at HLS next year says this smaller feel to HLS was a plus in her decision to attend the school.
"It does have a reputation for being big and impersonal...[but] they are definitely trying to move towards having more interaction between students and faculty," Card says.
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