Could Your Law School Curriculum Do This?
Yale’s business school is experimenting with a new MBA curriculum:
The heart of the new first-year curriculum is a series of eight multidisciplinary courses, called Organizational Perspectives, that are structured around the organizational roles a manager must engage, motivate, and lead in order to solve problems — or make progress. These roles are both internal to the organization — the Innovator, the Operations Engine, the Employee, and Sourcing and Managing Funds (or CFO) — and external to the organization — the Investor, the Customer, the Competitor, and State and Society.
I can’t wait for the first law school to follow suit. What would the courses be? The Managing Partner, the Overworked Associate, the Out-of-Touch Professor, the Client Who Can’t Get a Call Returned, etc?
Add your suggestions in the comments. And for a slightly more serious take on law school curricula, check out this prior post: If Blawggers Ran Law Schools.