The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

70Massachusetts Law School (MSL) has accomplished this…. Thekeys have been a heavy reliance on practitioners and judges to teach,a small full time faculty that not only teaches but mentors apermanent group of adjuncts, a shared commitment to teaching….”and at p. 232:“With the exception of faculty members who founded MSL some tenyears ago, all but one of the full time faculty were recruited from theranks of the schools’ adjuncts. At present nearly half of all coursehours each year are taught by adjuncts drawn from the ranks ofworking lawyers and judges.”7.3 The reason why lawyers and judges are actively involved in so far asthe teaching of law schools is stated as follows:“The school’s view is that, although teaching involves a different(but not entirely distinct) set of skills from lawyering or adjudication,those with relevant experience are far better teachers on the wholethan those whose knowledge is largely academic.”7.4 The Massachusetts view is that ‘reliance on adjuncts provides depthand benefit to the curriculum at a relatively low cost. To hire full timefaculty with as much knowledge and experience (as lawyers and judges)would be very expensive. They say that