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69Chapter VIIAdjunct Teachers from the Bar & Bench7.0 One of the important recommendations of the Mac Crate Reportrelates to the need not only for permanent full time faculty but also to“make appropriate use of skilled and experienced practicing lawyersand Judges in professional skills”,and receive guidance, from part-time adjunct teachers drawn frompracticing lawyers and retired Judges.The Report also refers to ‘apprentice programmes’.7.1 From the time-old method of ‘lectures’, the Langdel’s ‘case method’,and Prof Llewellyn and Judge Jerome Frank’s ‘problem method’, we havenow reached the new method of training the students in various ‘skills andvalues’ with the help of faculty and the ‘adjunct faculty’ of practicinglawyers and judges, as advocated in the Mac Crate Report.7.2 Andre Thomas Starkis and others refer in ‘Meeting the Mac Crateobjectives (affordably): Massachusetts Law School: (Vol. 48) Journal ofLegal Education (1998) at p. 231 to a combination of faculty, lawyers andjudges, as follows: (p. 231)“The Mac Crate Report challenged the traditionalist’s view of legaleducation because it proceeded from the premises that preparing lawstudents to practice law is the business of law schools….