The Legal Education Model is Out of Touch, Writes New ABA Commission Member

Authors

Stephanie Francis Ward, ABA Journal

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-21-2017

Publisher

American Bar Association

Language

en-US

Abstract

Legal education is too complex, expensive and disconnected, and the American Bar Association has an “effective monopoly” on law school accreditation, according to Gillian Hadfield, a member of the organization’s Commission on the Future of Legal Education.

Comments

Quotes Dean O'Rourke's comments from press release announcing the creation of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Education.

Recommended Citation

Stephanie F. Ward, The Legal Education Model is Out of Touch, Writes New ABA Commission Member , in ABA Journal (2017).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/orourke_aba/1