Let’s start our week off with a fight, shall we?
Well, more like a debate. But when attorneys get chatting about whether law school should be three years long, or two (or some hybrid), things can get a little heated.
This fire was rekindled this month when President Barack Obama mentioned that he believed two years of law school may be adequate. I guess he was practicing for a controversial dialogue about Syria.
That led law school professor Bruce Ackerman to rise up to defend the status quo.
Well, whattayaknow, someone didn’t agree with that.
Well, quite a few, probably. But here is one lawyer–commentator who left no stone unturned in his dissection of Ackerman’s argument.
What do you think?
Is two years enough for a law degree?
And even if you think we should stick with three years, is the handwriting on the wall? Are we headed to a two-year J.D.?
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September 16, 2013 at 5:15 pm
I’m not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV). I do, however, have a three-year professional degree (Master’s of Divinity) and I will say when we seminary students met our law school friends at Happy Hour, it sure seemed like they had a more rigorous route than we did. Is it possible to cram it all in in less than 3 years? Or were they just trying to impress us with how much they were learning?