Yeah, well, plenty of people – including this blogger – were appalled when the ninth law school in that state opened last year. Almost immediately, its president resigned because of credit card misuse.
Then there’s Irvine’s new law school, another concentration of overpaid professors and unemployed grads.
But on and on the ABA goes, accrediting everything, making the world safe for tens of thousands of useless lawyers and hundreds of professors who earn $150,000 to $350,000 a year preparing their students to be unemployed.
May 21st, 2012 at 9:27PM
Well, two lawyers can thrive in a town where one would starve…
May 25th, 2012 at 1:45PM
I do not think it is really the ABA’s fault that there are too many law schools. Antitrust considerations prevent the ABA from limiting the number of law schools. All they can do is examine each law school to see if it meets minimum standards.
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/press_releases/1995/0257.htm
In other words, if the ABA did what you are suggesting — refuse to accredit law schools in order to limit the number of lawyers — they would get sued.
December 17th, 2012 at 12:46PM
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