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Health law hearings offer live case study

Boston-area law schools incorporate health care debate into classrooms

By Martine Powers

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 29, 2012

Professors at law schools across the region are incorporating the Supreme Court health care debate into their curriculum, assigning hot-of-the-presses legal briefs to classes and listening to audio recordings of court hearings. The focus on the case in the classroom is another step in law school professors taking classes out of their decades-old case books and into the real world. “It’s a growing percentage of what law school is all about,’’ said Robert Greenwald, a clinical professor law at Harvard Law School.

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