Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Why legal education should last for three years - The Washington Post

Why legal education should last for three years - The Washington Post:
by Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman is a professor of law and political science at Yale University. 
 President Obama was dead wrong last month in suggesting that law school educations should be only two years. The third year is not an expensive frill but a crucial resource in training lawyers for 21st-century challenges. U.S. law is in the midst of an intellectual revolution. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes saw it coming more than a century ago: “For the rational study of the law the blackletter man [who focuses on existing legal rules] may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.”  Holmes’s future is our present. ",,,,

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