Dean Griswold Will Tour In Australia, New Zealand

Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Harvard Law School, will tour New Zealand and Australia during the Spring Term. Leaving on January 10, he will visit the major law schools in both countries, and return to Cambridge near the end of June.

While Dean Griswold is abroad, Livingston Hall, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law, will serve as Acting Dean.

Although Griswold does not plan to do any formal teaching in either New Zealand or Australia, he hopes to visit every important law school in both countries, meeting informally with students and teachers to discuss legal training in the United States.

After a stay of five weeks in New Zealand, Griswold will go to Australia.

Griswold will explain the Harvard Law School "case study" method, in which law students study specific cases in various fields.

"My trip to Australia and New Zealand does not constitute a sabbatical leave," Griswold emphasized. "First of all, sabbaticals are not available to administrative officers. Secondly, 'sabbatical' means once every seven years, and I haven't been on leave from the Harvard Law School for 25 consecutive academic years."

In addition to Griswold's tour, Harvard and Australian law schools are exchanging ideas through visiting faculty members. Peter Brett from Melbourne is at the Harvard Law School this year as Ezra Ripley Fair Teaching Fellow.