What’s Your Solution to the Troubles with Legal Education?
The ABA wants to know.
Anyone with anything to say about the state of legal education: Here’s your chance to sound off.
The task force the American Bar Association formed in August to examine the challenges facing law schools is asking for public input on questions ranging from how the cost of legal education hurts students and the legal profession, to what law schools should seek to achieve during the next 25 years.
The 19-member Task Force on the Future of Legal Education also is moving up the time frame for completion of its work. The group originally was slated to issue its recommendations in spring 2014; now, it plans to submit that report in fall 2013.
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“We don’t want people to recite the current set of dilemmas,” Shepard said. “There is a Niagara of discourse on the problems—that’s been laid out in great detail. We’re hoping that people will write to us about the actions they think might be productive.”
The task force isn’t only looking at what the ABA should do, but also at what law schools, universities, bar examiners and other actors might do….