Law School Gets $110,000 Grant

The Carnegie Corporation has granted $110,000 to the Harvard Law School for a project enabling college liberal arts teachers to study law for one year.

The award will allow the Law School to continue for three more years the program begun in 1960 with a Carnegie grant of $150,000.

The money provides fellowships for teachers in the social sciences and humanities to enroll in regular law school courses in order to introduce legal insights and techniques into the teaching and research of their various disciplines. "The Law School hopes to overcome the ignorance of law which is so widespread in the social sciences and humanities," said Professor Berman, chairman of the committee in charge of the project.

Every year since 1960, four to five teachers have taken standard law courses, supplementing them with special seminars.

Some of the participants have been, so impressed, that they have introduced law courses into the curriculm of their colleges.

"If the project continues to be successful," added Professor Berman, "the Law School hopes to find funds to put it on a permanent basis."