FAILNG LAW SCHOOLS ppt

[...]... in governance, CLEA argued, if law schools hope to train competent lawyers The airing by clinicians of their grievances exposes a schism that lies below the surface of many law faculties, one that goes to a fundamental divide over whether law schools are academic institutions or exist to train lawyers As we shall see, this divide has had enduring significance for law schools The entreaties of clinicians... understand the internal operation of law schools, one must keep this in mind   prol o gue I led off this book about law schools with a personal account of the circumstances surrounding my brief adventure as interim dean a dozen years ago because it is the best way to convey to readers the strange dynamics on law faculties I must emphasize that many law professors at law schools across the country are conscientious... research compensation.”5 Schools were at times “placed on report” when compensation levels were below that of peer schools. 6 Law 12  temp tations of se l f - re g u l at ion professors thus enjoyed measures that inured to their financial benefit and insured they would not be subjected to onerous teaching loads A number of accreditation requirements imposed high costs on law schools Law schools were required... institutions, law schools were prohibited from offering bar preparation courses for credit (which helps prop up the lucrative bar review course industry) And several provisions jealously guarded accreditation itself by penalizing students at unaccredited schools Accredited law schools were prohibited from accepting credits from students seeking to transfer from unaccredited schools Graduates from unaccredited schools, ... regulation of law schools, the work environment of law professors, the competitive pressures on law schools, the limited information available to prospective students, and the way law school is financed through federal loans are critical pieces The prologue begins with a brief account of the circumstances surrounding my interim deanship over a dozen years ago at St John’s University School of Law It is... for the present and future At the root of these problems is the way law schools today are chasing after prestige and revenue without attention to the consequences The enviable resources law schools enjoy relative to their poor neighbors in economics and English departments are the riches obtained in the chase The economic model of law schools is broken The cost of a legal education today is substantially... significant proportion of law graduates nationwide find themselves in financial hardship Several dozen individual law schools, furthermore, are failing in the specific sense that a substantial bulk of their graduates suffer financial hardship These law schools pile up casualties year after year among students who walk through their doors If normal economic signals were operating, schools that fail to serve... if a magazine was responsible for their conduct Elite law schools distance themselves from the worst offenders, conveniently ignoring that they too engage in questionable actions, merely to a lesser extent Law schools at every level have been failing their ethical responsibilities, while pointing the finger at others In this book, I explore how law schools have arrived at this sorry state and the implications... unaccredited schools Graduates from unaccredited schools, furthermore, could not enroll in graduate law programs (LLM and SJD) offered by accredited schools The standards barred them despite the fact that graduates from foreign law schools were freely permitted to enroll These various measures effectively kept out law schools built on a lowcost model, which emphasizes teaching rather than research, relies on... University School of Law, observed in connection with the antitrust charges, “It always seemed that this was a process that was largely designed to help law schools extract funds from their host universities and to help certain groups within law schools extract funds from the dean.”9 (Dean Cass was doing fine himself, reportedly earning “$479,387 plus $23,173 in benefits in 1996–97.”)10 While law school deans . century has been a golden age of plenty for law schools. Yet law schools are failing abjectly in multiple ways. Annual tuition at over a half-dozen law schools topped , in , with a dozen. regulation of law schools, the work environment of law professors, the competitive pressures on law schools, the limited information available to prospective students, and the way law school. students it might be prudent to forgo law school at current prices. Law schools, nally, are failing society. While raising tuition to astro- nomical heights, law schools have slashed need-based nancial