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Start Date
5-10-2013 9:45 AM
End Date
5-10-2013 10:00 AM
Description
In the early 20th century, a handful of so-called national law schools benefited by becoming the preferred providers to the nation’s fledging corporate bar. Since this fortuitous beginning, these schools have become the upper echelon of a hierarchy that effectively sorts law graduates into a wider array of professional opportunities that includes judicial clerkships, prestigious public interest and federal agency jobs, and teaching positions within law schools. But this sorting function may have created an environment of insularity and entitlement that suppresses teaching and curricular innovation, which is sure to unravel in the outcomes-based, value-add world we are now entering.
Runtime: 20:28
Presentation Slides
TED #3: The Future of U.S. Law Schools
In the early 20th century, a handful of so-called national law schools benefited by becoming the preferred providers to the nation’s fledging corporate bar. Since this fortuitous beginning, these schools have become the upper echelon of a hierarchy that effectively sorts law graduates into a wider array of professional opportunities that includes judicial clerkships, prestigious public interest and federal agency jobs, and teaching positions within law schools. But this sorting function may have created an environment of insularity and entitlement that suppresses teaching and curricular innovation, which is sure to unravel in the outcomes-based, value-add world we are now entering.
Runtime: 20:28