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5 B. L. J. 21 (1969)
Teaching at a Megaversity

handle is hein.journals/braclj5 and id is 31 raw text is: TEACHING AT A MEGAVERSITY by David L. Perrott, LL.B. (Exon), BoCoLo (Oxon) Lecturer in Law in the University of Exeter In the aptumn.of 1967 the College of Law of the University of Illinois unexpectedly found that its staff would be a man'short for the Spring semester of 1968. For various domestic reasons it is difficult to recruit even a temporary American at that time of year for the following January, and so they decided to try to obtain an English law teacher on leave. As I had certain contacts with Illinois Law School dating from my Sudan days I was, eventually, the one invited to go. Fortunately Exeter was prepared to grant me leave of absence at short notice, and my Faculty colleagues magnanimbusly agreed to share out my teaching here among themselves, so I was able to accept. Moreover the generous terms of Illinois' offer made it possible for Gerda and the children to accompany ine. The University of Illinois is the major state-supported university in Illinois (there are also minor regional state universities) and is developing on what is now the familiar pattern for such institutions in the -more populous states, i.e. it is gigantic. Its main campus is at Champaing-Urbano in midstate Illinois, about 120 miles south of Chicago; here there are c.35,000 students and c.4000 staff in a town of c.100,000 altogether. Imagine London Urniversity dropped into the middle 'of Exeter and one will have some idea of the concentration involved. There are another 12,000 students on p separate campus in Chicago itself. The facilities that can be made available to staff and students when concentrations of this size are reached in a relatively wealthy state are staggering. For example: the mcdin university library at Champaign-Urbana is the fourth largest in the U.S.A. (including the library of Congress); it has around four million volumes, with space for a further two-million; golf *and flying are popular pastimes, so the Champaign campus owns two golf- courses and two national-standards-equipped airports.

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