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Dent, George W., Jr. – Academic Questions, 2011
In this article, the author describes the seemingly all-powerful Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and the negative effects of its single-minded obsession with "diversity." He suggests ways in which true diversity of viewpoint might be injected into law school education. The key is to raise awareness and apply the same standards to all…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Law Schools, Diversity (Institutional), Ideology
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French, David – Academic Questions, 2011
Lawyers are among the most unhappy, least respected wealthy people in America. There are, no doubt, many reasons for the morale crisis in the legal profession. After all, not many people like lawyers. Further, many aspects of legal work are objectively stressful. Litigation is rife with conflict even in the most courteous jurisdictions, and trials…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Law Schools, School Effectiveness, Failure
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Forte, David F. – Academic Questions, 2011
In this article, the author provides a detailed legal history of originalism and investigates whether, and to what extent, originalism is a part of law school teaching on the Constitution. He shares the results of an examination of the leading constitutional law textbooks used in the top fifty law schools and a selection of responses gathered from…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Textbooks, Law Schools, Constitutional Law
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Krauss, Michael I. – Academic Questions, 2011
In this article, the author explains how forty years of politicized hiring in the law schools has left its destructive mark. The results are potentially catastrophic: Market forces and internal law school policies may be combining to produce a legal education bubble the likes of which the country has never seen. (Contains 11 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Law Schools, Politics of Education, Political Influences
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Rounds, Charles E., Jr. – Academic Questions, 2011
While many law students and recent grads have come to feel that legal education is an expensive waste of time now that the job market for lawyers has collapsed, some seasoned law practitioners have their own concerns about the worth of a legal education. Their concerns, however, relate to product quality rather than product marketability.…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Law Students, Law Schools, Lawyers
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Reynolds, Gerald A. – Academic Questions, 2007
Columnist George Will and others have questioned the continuing need for a federal civil rights commission, because civil rights protections have been on the books since 1964. The chairman of the Commission, Gerald Reynolds, here responds that practitioners of critical legal theory, advocates of the Akaka-Secession bill, some proponents of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Legal Education (Professions), Laws