This extraordinarily honest and insightful essay by @samuelmoyn is a must-read for law students and especially law professors and law school deans. It is a fundamental critique of the role of law schools in American society in less than 2500 words. chronicle.com/article/Law-Sc…
The piece is addressed to progressives who dominate law school culture. It criticizes court-centrism and the sharp clinical turn in law schools, and chides super elite-seeking law students who complain about the elitism of their institutions, which aim to perpetuate elitism.
Sam’s primary prescription, with details in the essay: “[L]aw schools will need to consider how to reset their missions for those students no longer able to suspend disbelief about how their ideals and their training fit together.”
Is this claim now true?: “a judicially oriented politics makes little difference, except to the right.” Something similar was said in the 1980s and it turned out not to be true then. If it turns out to be true now, there will indeed be a crisis in law schools.
Agree with it or not, everyone associated with law schools should read this essay.
