The Crises of Legal Education: A Wake-Up Call for Faculty

Journal of Legal Education

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 92-102

  Weidner, Donald J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (27)

1. See American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Legal Education and Professional Development - An Educational Continuum, Report of the Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap (Chicago, 1992).
2. See Graham C. Lilly, Law Schools Without Lawyers? Winds of Change in Legal Education, 81 Va. L. Rev. 1421 (1995); Harry T. Edwards, The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education and the Legal Profession, 91 Mich. L. Rev. 34 (1992).
3. See Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, Ten Public Policy Issues for Higher Education in 1996, at 5 (Washington, 1996) [hereinafter AGB Report].
4. See Peter Schmidt, Florida Is Urged to Relinquish Control of Public-University System, Chron. Higher Educ., May 10, 1996, at A40.
5. Governor Pete Wilson has asked the University of California Board of Regents to report to him by February 1997 on which of the four state law schools should be sold. Steven A. Capps, Wilson Wants State to Scrap a Law School, S.F. Examiner, Apr. 12, 1996, at A1.
6. On July 11, 1996, the Ohio Board of Regents adopted a plan that will reduce the number of law students receiving state money and save the taxpayers $1.9 million a year. The plan ties subsidies to the grades and test scores of incoming students. See Doug Caruso, Law Student Subsidies Face Cuts at 5 Schools - State Money to Be Tied to Achievement, Columbus Dispatch, July 12, 1996, at 3B.
7. AGB Report, supra note 3, at 7.
8. Id. at 8.
9. American Council on Education, Corporate Lessons for American Higher Education 34 (Washington, 1994) [hereinafter Corporate Lessons].
10. Id. at 7-8.
11. Caruso, supra note 6.
12. Corporate Lessons, supra note 9, at 9.
13. See Law School Admission Council, Elimination of CLEO Funding, Memorandum 96-42 (May 8, 1996).
14. Caruso, supra note 6; Chris Klein, Downsizing Meets Resistance at 3 Ohio Public Law Schools, Nat'l L.J., July 29, 1996, at A20.
15. 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir.), reh'g en banc denied, 84 F.3d 720 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 116 S. Ct. 2580 (1996).
16. "In an unprecedented new advertising campaign, Touro College's Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center assures prospective students that they'll be able to find work after graduation." Chris Klein, Faced with a Drop in Applicants, Some Schools Resort to Hard Sell, Nat'l L.J., July 1, 1996, at A19.
17. There is no magic to the term restructuring as I use it. Reinventing, rethinking, reordering, reconfiguring, and many other words could be used to make my point: we in the academy need to take a hard look at the identification and productivity of tenure-track faculty.
18. Corporate Lessons, supra note 9, at 2-3.
19. Id. at 31.
20. Id. at 36.
21. Id.
22. Office of the Consultant on Legal Education to the American Bar Association, Memorandum D9596-75 (June 2, 1996).
23. Jennifer B. Lucas, Study Sees Library of Congress' Mission as Information Broker, Not Collector, 1 Electronic Info. Pol'y & L. Rep. (BNA) 150 (May 17, 1996).
24. Comments by the Mississippi Bar to Proposed Standard 205. Office of the Consultant on Legal Education to the American Bar Association, Memorandum D9596-80 (July 9, 1996).
25. See Goldie Blumenstyk, Western Governors Continue to Plan "Virtual" College, Chron. Higher Educ., June 14, 1996, at A30.
26. Corporate Lessons, supra note 9, at 39.
27. See Kirk Johnson, In New Jersey, I.B.M. Cuts Space, Frills and Private Desks, N.Y. Times, Mar. 7, 1994, at B1.