Yesterday I attended a panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools on the subject of “Law Schools and Their Critics.” The panel was moderated by Lauren Robel, the AALS President, and the panelists included Deborah Rhode of Stanford, Bill Henderson of Indiana, Gene Nichol of UNC, and Bryant Garth […]
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Law Professors and the Public Interest
In a short essay in the UCLA Law Review online supplement, lawprof Jay Sterling Silver argues that the status quo of legal education is in the public interest. Silver’s essay responds to Brian Tamanaha’s critique of legal education, in which Brian looks for ways that law schools could reduce costs — such as by having […]
Chronicle of Higher Education on Failing Law Schools
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting article on responses to a forthcoming book I recently blogged about, Brian Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools. The Chronicle article is behind a paywall, so to read it you need to click here and then click on the link. The article includes this defense of the status quo […]