2011 may go down in history as the year the ABA-Legal Academy cartel controversy moved beyond the law prof blogging reformers to receive major legal media and, more importantly, major general media attention by some opinion leaders that has caught…
Posts Tagged ‘legal academy’
Let’s Start with Basic Skills: Teaching Law Students Reading and Reasoning Skills
09
Dec
Obviously there has been much more change-talk than action in improving the legal academy curriculum. Perhaps that is because the legal academy is a bit befuddled about where to start. Even if we accept the premise that law schools try…
Hello Congress, Want to Eliminate Wasteful Public Spending in the Legal Academy?
30
Nov
Why do we keep reading that new law schools are being launched when there is and has been for some time an oversupply of lawyers in the labor market? Because employment prospects look great based on fudged placement data? I…
Hardly a Strong Call for Reforming the Legal Academy from the New York Times Editorial Staff
28
Nov
See Legal Education Reform (Nov. 25, 2011 editorial). [JH]
Newsflash: Law Schools Don’t Teach Law Students To Be Lawyers
22
Nov
There was an article published in the New York Times last Sunday, What They Don’t Teach Law Students: Lawyering, and it’s worth reading, even if we knew most of it already. In summary, the legal academy doesn’t teach law students…
Declining Academic Credentials of 1Ls: Will the mad dash to fill seats in the legal academy put lower-tier law schools at risk of losing ABA accreditation?
14
Oct
After presenting a statistical analysis showing that enrollment rates at ABA law schools have been increasing while LSAT takers and law school applicant rates have been declining over time, Gary Rosen writes If the sharp drop in takers in June…
Is the Legal Profession, Is the "ABA-Legal Academy Cartel," as Future Ready for Alternative Business Structures as "Professional Legal Services" Vendors Are?
06
Oct
Readers of Richard Susskind’s The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology (OUP, 1998) and The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services, Revised Ed. (OUP, 2010) can already see forecasted changes in the provision of…
Resistance? No Doubt, but the Timing is Ripe to Make an Attempt: Reforming Legal Research & Writing Instruction Requires Transforming the Status Quo Model of Law School Curriculum and Faculty Governance
06
Sep
Alas, I seriously doubt any such reform will by mandated by the ABA’s review of accredition standards since not interfering with the how the legal academy should produce “pratice ready” grads beyond aspirational goals for “outcomes” appears to be the…
Providing Legal Services to the "Masses" in the 21st Century, Part Three: A View from the Legal Academy
15
Aug
Marsha Mansfield and Louise G. Trube (both U of Wisconsin Law School) open their recent article, New Roles to Solve Old Problems: Lawyering for Ordinary People in Today’s Context [SSRN] (New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 2,…
There’s No Business Like Law School Business
18
Jul
In his June 16, 2011 NYT Business Day article, David Segal observes that the basic rule of supply and demand does not apply in the legal academy. Legal diplomas have such allure that law schools have been able to jack…
