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Minority Youths
Test Law Interest
In Summer Study

A faculty made up of students
and professors from the law schools
of the University, Howard
University, and the University of
Texas was announced today for an
institute to help minority group
students evaluate their interest and
ability in law study.

The six-week institute at the
University is one of ten being
sponsored across the nation this
summer by the Council on Legal
Education Opportunity (CLEO) for
some 450 minority group students.
CLEO is sponsored by the
American Bar Association.

Dean Joins

Walter J. Leonard, assistant law
dean and associate law professor at
Howard, and James M. Treece,
professor of law at the University
of Texas, will join two University
law professors as faculty members.
The two University representatives,
also co-directors of the institute,
are Jerry L. Mashaw, assistant
professor of law, and John N.
Moore, associate professor of law.

Mr. Leonard, a graduate of
Howard law school where he was
Duncan M. Spencer scholar, is
director of that school's
development program. Mr. Treece,
who taught at Rutgers law school
before going to Texas, currently
teaches a course on the black
American at the University of
Texas.

Mr. Mashaw is a former Marshall
Scholar at the University of
Edinburgh and taught previously at
Tulane University. Mr. Moore has
been a fellow of the National
Institute of Mental Health and is
former associate professor of law
and assistant dean at the University
of Florida.

Courses Of Study

Courses of study will include
introductory materials for such
areas as constitutional law and legal
process, with some classes
conducted as small seminars. The
overall curriculum is designed to
familiarize the student with the role
of law in society while developing
analytic and verbal skills. Classwork
will be supplemented by a research
and writing program, ending with a
moot court trial. Students will have
frequent individual conferences
with instructors and teaching
assistants to evaluate progress and
problems.

In addition, the institute will
assist students in applying to the
law schools of their choice and
counsel them as to suitable
accredited law schools. It also will
make available a list of students for
interested law schools and contact
schools on behalf of the students.

The institute at the University
will run from June 13 through July
24.

Free Material

Students enrolled in the
program receive free material,
tuition and room and board, a
weekly living allowance and a grant
for loss of summer earnings. In
addition, the program is planned
for the first half of the summer so
that students may seek
employment for the second half.

Applicants must have been
graduated from college by June,
1969. Deadline for application is
April 15, 1969. Applications are
available from CLEO Summer
Institute, University School of Law,
Charlottesville, Va. 22901, and
from college placement offices in
the mid-Atlantic region.