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November 2, 2011
Are Law Schools Facing a Crisis? NLJ launches new blog on legal education
| Quoting the "About the Blog" Statement |
| Rising tuition. Misleading employment statistics. Inadequate skills training. Law schools have faced plenty of criticism for their role in the struggles of young lawyers today. The National Law Journal has assembled a panel of legal educators and law graduates to discuss whether law schools are facing a crisis, and how they should respond to their mounting problems. |
In the Oct. 27th "Hello World" post for Law School Review: A Forum on Legal Education, NLJ's Karen Sloan wrote:
Welcome to The National Law Journal's Law School Review, which is an online forum examining the current state and future of legal education. We want to address the question, "Are law schools in crisis?" If the answer is yes, what are the most pressing problems and how should educators and regulators address them? If the answer is no, what is it that law schools are doing right? Is this enough to ensure their future viability? We have assembled a panel of experts to share their thoughts on the subject..., and we hope to create a robust dialogue and exchange of ideas.
It's not an overstatement to characterize Law School Review's contributors as a panel of experts. Most are very well known for writing about the current state of the legal academy:
Brian Tamanaha
A professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law who writes about law schools on the blog Balkinization
Erwin Chemerinsky
Founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law
John F. O’Brien
Dean of the New England Law, Boston and chairman of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Kyle McEntee
A 2011 graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School and the executive director of Law School Transparency, a nonprofit group advocating for legal education reform
Lucille Jewel
Professor at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School who has written about the problems faced by recent law school graduates
Michael A. Olivas
A professor at the University of Houston Law Center and the current president of the Association of American Law Schools
William Henderson
Professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law—Bloomington who studies the legal profession
Recently published posts include the following:
- The Hard Business Problems Facing U.S. Law Faculty by William Henderson
- Law Schools are not in Crisis by Brian Tamanaha
- Reimagining Legal Education by Kyle McEntee
Should make for interesting reading. [JH]
November 2, 2011 in Law School News & Views, New Publications, Web Communications | Permalink
Comments
Soooo, the persons who are the most qualified to say whether law schools are in danger are the same people being paid by the law schools who are in danger? Sounds like a bunch of biased people, to me. The opinion I'd value is that of the students who went to those schools - or maybe someone other person who doesn't have their hands in the kitty and isn't beholding to their respective institutions (like a law librarian from that institution or a professor from that institution or a dean from that institution or anyone who actually works at a law school).
Posted by: Bret | Nov 3, 2011 8:41:20 AM
