Virgie and I feel strongly about this fellowship because graduate students made my program. - Stanley Peloquin (’51 MS ALS, ’52 PhD L&S), who with wife Vergie created the Peloquin Graduate Training and Research Fund |
|  | The third area of emphasis is a series of initiatives to assure that the curriculum continues to meet the needs of current graduates who face the challenges (and opportunities) posed by globalization, technological development and high rates of change and turnover in the job marketplace. While the details of what will be included in this effort will be defined in conjunction with the strategic plan the Law School is currently undertaking, there will be two distinct elements.
First will be the implementation of changes to the curriculum that will go beyond teaching analytical reasoning to enhance training in skills that will be critical to the practice of law in the future. These areas of skills training might include such things as problem solving, negotiations, working in teams and leadership. Similarly, both a guided series of coursework and an advanced legal writing experience requirement in the second and third years might be a part of the curricular development project.
Second will be an examination of the curriculum with the goal of strategically enhancing areas of academic strength. Such areas that could be targeted for enhancement include globalization, intellectual property and comparative corporate governance.
It is difficult to put a dollar figure on this priority area until the elements are further defined, but it is likely that the plan will include one or two chairs, professorships, summer research support for developing new courses and a possible academic center. This program of curricular development will require a significant investment of resources, currently estimated at $10 million. |
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