The Law School Mission Statement: A Survival Guide for the Twenty-first Century

Journal of Legal Education

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 240-269

  Butler, Gordon T ^a  

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1. Standards for Approval of Law Schools, 1999 A.B.A. Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar § 202(a).
2. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People 143 (New York, 1989).
3. The Northbound Train: Finding the Purpose, Setting the Direction, Shaping the Destiny of Your Organization 149 (New York, 1994).
4. See Jeffrey Abrahams, The Mission Statement Book 106 (Berkeley, 1995).
5. Id. at 332.
6. Id. at 125.
7. Corporate Mission Statements: The Bottom Line, 1 Acad. Mgmt. Executive 109, 109-13 (1987).
8. Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Practices and Principles 7 (New York, 1990).
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10. Albrecht, supra note 3, at 153.
11. Id. at 1.
12. Unpublished statement on file with author. Ackoff is a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance.
13. I multiplied the per school average points for each category by 16 and added the result to the total points for the 16 group 2 law schools for that category to get the total points. This weighting would result in 87 points for instruction in traditional courses, 54 for sense of community, 53 for faculty accessibility, and 43 for faculty scholarship.
14. No school wrote "ethics" or "professionalism" in under "other" or listed them as unique programs distinguishing their school from others. A proxy for professionalism could be public interest program, but this received negligible response.
15. On a weighted basis the overall ranking of the desired elements of the law school's desired public image does not change significantly.
16. Responses to the initial questionnaire, for which "teaching" was not a suggested response, ranked dedication to students needs, ethical professional graduates, and faculty scholarship/research first, second, and third respectively.
17. Responses to the initial questionnaire listed building the school's reputation as the most important value in decision-making. It was the clear choice of group 2 law schools, while group 1 schools considered promoting faculty scholarship equally important. Because schools differ about the elements of reputation, the supplemental questionnaire did not list building the school's reputation as a suggested response.
18. 75 Minn. L. Rev. 945 (1991).
19. See id. at 962-65.
20. Richard A. Matasar & Rosemary Shiels, Electronic Law Students: Repercussions on Legal Education, 29 Val. U. L. Rev. 909, 933 (1995).
21. The ten schools having the best international law programs, in order of rank, are NYU (4), Columbia (5), Harvard (2), Georgetown (14), Yale (1), George Washington (25), Michigan (8), American University (second tier), Virginia (7), Iowa (23). The overall school ranking is in parentheses.
22. The ten schools ranked as having the best clinical training programs, in order of rank, are Georgetown (14), NYU (4), American University (tier 2), Maryland (tier 2), New Mexico (tier 2), Yale (1), CUNY-Queens College (tier 4), Chicago (6), UCLA (16), Northwestern (12). The overall school ranking is in parentheses.
23. Joseph P. Guiltinan & Gordon W. Paul, Marketing Management: Strategies and Programs, 4th ed., 45 (New York, 1991).
24. Philip Kotler, Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation, and Control, 7th ed., 395 (Englewood Cliffs, 1991).
25. See ABA Web site, 〈www.abanet.org/legaled/postjdprograms/postjd.html〉 (visited Oct. 12, 1999). The most popular programs were general LL.M. (33 programs), taxation (26), "as approved" programs (17), international and comparative law (17), comparative law (12), and health law (11).
26. Stein, supra note 18, at 957.
27. Id.
28. See Brendan I. Koerner et al., Where the Boys Aren't, U.S. News & World Rep., Feb. 8, 1999, at 46.
29. See Report of the AALS Special Committee on Problems of Substance Abuse in the Law Schools, 44 J. Legal Educ. 35, 45-53 (1994).
30. Executive Summary, Report of the AALS Special Committee on Problems of Substance Abuse in the Law Schools 5 (1993) (available from ABA Center for Professional Responsibility).
31. See Drucker, supra note 8, at xvii.
32. Management Challenges for the 21st Century 101 (New York, 1999).
33. Id. at 114.
34. See Drucker, supra note 8, at 9.
35. See id. at 10.
36. Id. at 11-12.
37. See id. at 13.