In what will go down in the annals of ABA history as one of the most assine interviews by an ABA president: Robinson had the grace and the courage to tell law students it was their own fault for the…
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In Defense of the Corvair: Worth one hellva lot more than trading it in to pay for law school
10
Jan
Federal Judge Offers Ideas To Reform the Teaching of Law
09
Jan
Judge José A. Cabranes of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was the lunchtime speaker at the Association of American Law Schools’ gathering last Friday. He was pretty blunt about his view of the current state of law schools, suggesting…
Fact-checking the Duncan Law School Story
09
Jan
In an earlier post, I speculated that it was probably not a coincidance that Duncan Law was featured in a New York Times article by David Segal just before the law school received official notice that the ABA denied its…
Law School Scamblogging Law Prof is ATL’s Lawyer of the Year for 2011
06
Jan
Staci Zaretsky announced the winner of ATL’s 2011 Lawyer of the Year contest yesterday: Congratulations to Paul Campos, the tenured, top-tier law professor behind Inside the Law School Scam! He is ATL’s Lawyer of the Year for 2011. If you’re…
Just Below the Law: Odds are high that this may be your future, Class of 2012 grads
06
Jan
If you are not about to graduate from a top 10 national law school (even then, you damn well be pretty high in the class rank), your law school’s placement office staff may not adivse you of this except with…
Duncan Law School’s Provisional Accreditation Denial: ABA Asks Court to Butt Out of Its Affairs
05
Jan
In its Jan. 3, 2012 brief in opposition to Duncan Law School’s motion for a temporary restraining order, the ABA starts out making its case why the ABA’s recent denial of provisional accreditation should not be litigated at this time:…
Provisional Accreditation Denial by the ABA: A speculative back-story for Duncan Law School’s Lawsuit
03
Jan
On Dec. 22, 2011, Duncan School of Law filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Tennessee against the ABA alleging antitrust and due process violations after failing to receive ABA provisional accreditation. [Text of…
