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Legal education and ABA accreditation requirements under fire by legal experts

By ADF Alliance Alert

Meredith Hobbs writes at the Fulton County Daily Report: "You're producing a product that very few people want. Firms have hiring freezes. Why not stop producing the product -- or create new markets for what you're producing?" one lawyer challenged the deans. "You're like the auto manufacturers who produce a product for which there is no demand." . . . But Matasar said law schools are hamstrung by requirements of the American Bar Association, which accredits them. For example, law students must have college degrees and must accumulate a certain number of classroom credits to graduate. "Some of the ABA rules do not have an educational reason," Matasar said. Instead, they exist to keep law professors employed, he said. "It's guild protection for the union of law professors of America."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).