Thursday, August 11, 2011

Inside the Law School Scam

So this an interesting development - a tenured professor at a "first tier" law school has decided to unload on the legal academic establishment. Above the Law tells the story about the blogger. His most recent post states his basic critique. - GWC
Inside the Law School Scam: "In more than one way, American law students are currently getting the worst of all worlds. Law schools have become somewhat more academically serious places, but quite incompletely (as always all these observations apply to greatly different degrees across the hierarchical spectrum of schools), and in any case most law students are not interested in paying $200,000 for an academic experience. Meanwhile, law schools remain as uninterested as ever in anything resembling actual vocational training. They remain largely dominated by a doctrinal model of teaching and scholarship that is neither academically serious nor of much practical vocational value. In short, students at the contemporary law school end up paying enormous amounts of money for something that they aren't getting, and in many cases wouldn't want even if it were being provided to them."

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