Are Law School Faculties Part of the Problem with Legal Education?

[sandra nowak]

Newton told the NLJ’s Karen Sloan that he has been concerned about the state of legal education since his student days at Columbia Law School during the early 1990s. He said he hears similar complaints these days from his own students at Georgetown. He called their fears “of being unable to land a job . . . and that law school had not prepared them to make a living” as a lawyer “realistic.”

“The academy — both in terms of its preparation of law students to enter the profession and the type of scholarship being produced by the professoriate — has lost its practical moorings,” Newton wrote.

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[richard2012]

Re: Are Law School Faculties Part of the Problem with Legal Education?

It is a common refrain,these days,that something is terribly wrong with law schools.Critics charge that tuition is too high and students are graduating with unmanageable debt.When considering a particular law school,a prospective law student should find out what percentage of recent graduates of that school landed permanent full-time jobs as lawyers.