Another term without human to human teaching announced by Harvard
Above the Law reports
Like a canary in the T14 coal mine, Harvard Law School has decided what it’s going to do about the Spring 2021 semester. HLS was the first elite law school to announce Fall 2020 was going to be entirely online, and as COVID-19 infection rates are soaring with the overwhelming majority of U.S. states in “uncontrolled spread” territory and vaccines unlikely to return life to normal any time soon, well, some sort of decision had to be made about the upcoming semester.
Yesterday, Dean of Harvard Law School John Manning announced that the Winter and Spring 2021 terms will be fully online.
Manning provided a detailed look at the law school decision making process in an email to all students (available in full on the next page). Notably, the dean said HLS considers a hybrid instructional model the most likely alternate outcome, but they rejected that as inferior pedagogically and as inequitable.
So, it’s fully online for the remainder of the 20-21 academic year at HLS. Manning also said that the law school is looking to augment the online experience in the coming terms, and laid out a detailed set of initiatives to make online learning as good as it can be:
Read the full report at https://abovethelaw.com/2020/10/harvard-law-spring-2021/
