If law schools and the legal profession are to contribute as much as they should to the development and maintenance of a proficient profession, they must: develop a definition of the proficient lawyer, allocate responsibilities between law schools and profession for educational programs, design programs, and obtain resources. (MLW))

There is a direct connection between quality legal education and an ambience encouraging full and free idea exchange, and an intellectually diverse law school community is necessary for that kind of exchange. The extent to which a church-related law school's religious goals should be permitted to infringe on this is crucial to its professional…

The paper reviews and critiques the 13 existing (1987) law school assistance programs and proposes a national repayment-assistance debt-forgiveness program which would involve an income-contingent repayment "tax" coupled with an assurance to creditors of repayment by means of a "guarantee" or "insurance" fund. (DB)

Law schools' future is no more or less certain than that of higher education generally. The question is whether law schools can conserve the qualitative gains they have made in recent years, especially within a static or declining larger institution. Effective administration, cooperative faculty, and generous alumni are crucial. (MSE)

The appropriateness of proposed Standard 405(e), which stipulates employment conditions of full-time clinical (law) faculty members, is considered. This proposal of the Accreditation Committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) would establish job security, economic equality, and a governance voice for clinicians who are not…

A paper written by a lawyer with a distinguished career in teaching and administration is presented posthumously. It discusses conflicts arising in faculty group and individual self-governance within the law school and addresses such issues as curriculum, teaching loads, tenure, consulting, scholarship, work attitudes, and student-faculty…