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Current Decisions (for Law Review members), Equity, Agency, and Federal Jurisdiction. During the 1960s, he encouraged many women to attend law school, based on the idea that the law school would benefit from having more women in the student body. One effectual way Professor Freedman taught ethics was to point out and discuss ethical issues that arose in cases already under discussion from the contracts textbook.
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