Indiana Tech’s Proponents Continue to Make Fools of Themselves, Amuse Critics

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette decided to update us on my new least-favorite new law school (Wilkes-Barre, I miss you!), Indiana Tech School of Law. Readers will recall I dipped into the topic after J-Dog did simply because the university’s reasons for establishing another law school were too absurdly self-serving to pass up, particularly in [...]

Links Generation—Law School Deans Are Not Experts on the Legal Labor Market, and Taxpayers Fund Army Officers’ Legal Education

When you run out of Beatles albums, you move to the Who. Two links have caught my eye. (1) LeeAnn Maton, “Law School No ‘Magic Bullet’ Against Recession, but Financial Aid Can Help,” in Wallet Pop [I]s investing in a law degree still worth the expense?  Actually, yes, according to three legal education experts who [...]

Abbey Links–Dean Farmer of Rutgers on the “Real Value” of Legal Education

Responding to its recent article the New Jersey Star-Ledger granted Rutgers dean John Farmer Jr. space to write, “The Real Value of a Legal Education.” Honestly, I couldn’t follow most of this piece.  Here’s my best stab.  Dean Farmer rhetorically asks, “What, exactly, is this enterprise of legal education about anyway?”  He answers: But the [...]

Links in the Vaseline–Law School Defenders

I know.  I know.  I forgot about the amusingly-named Talking Heads compilation album in my links titles. David Lat at Above the Law tasks me with his post, “In Defense of Going to Law School,” in which he believes the case against law school is, “greatly exaggerated.”  He gives five reasons for attending law school [...]

Law School: You Get What You Put into It…Sort Of

Earlier, I distinguished the versatile juris doctor from the supplemental knowledge argument.  The two are not to be confused, and I’ll see to that in this post. The versatile J.D. argument counterintuitively and often misleadingly asserts that a juris doctor will open employment doors beyond private or public legal practice, even though in reality that [...]