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747.8 Prof. Deborah Jones Merrit in her article “New Course Offering inthe Upper Level Curriculum: Report of an AALS Survey (Vol. 47) (1997)Journal of Legal Education p. 524 (at p. 546) says:“Adjuncts taught a significantly higher percentage of litigation –related courses (42.2 %) , the new courses (31.1 %)…. Tenure-trackfaculty seemed to teach a somewhat smaller percentage of litigationclasses (48.6 %) than other new courses (55.9 %).”and at p. 550“Adjuncts taught a particularly high percentage (53.2%) of lawyerscourses. Tenure-track faculty, on the other hand, were significantlyless likely to teach lawyers courses (43%) than other new offerings(56%).”7.9 From the above views expressed by leading academicians, it is clearthat if various types of ‘legal skills’ programs are proposed to beintroduced into the curriculum, it becomes necessary to introduce an‘adjunct faculty’ consisting of “lawyers and Judges” on the teaching sideinto the faculty on a part time basis.7.10 As at present, there does not appear to be such a system. In the lastseveral decades, there was the system of leading lawyers taking up classespart-time in the evening or morning Law colleges or even day time regularclasses. In fact, very distinguished lawyers who later became Judges of the