Law Schools Peer Into The Abyss But The American Bar Association Blocks Serious Change
According to the Law School Admissions Council, in 2004, more than 100,000 students applied for law school, but in 2013, just 59,000 did. Some law schools have had to lay off faculty members and administrators.
Now, the article goes the odd route of trying to come up with ways to arrest and reverse this drop in law school enrollment. To me, its a lot like an article trying to come up with ways to arrest and reverse the twenty-year decline in the murder rate. Rather, we should be examining ways to accelerate the decline. 59,000 students per year lost to productivity is still far too many.
As with abortion, lawyers should be legal… but rare. Perhaps we can look forward to the day when the War On Some Drugs is finally abandoned, thus negating the need not only for vast armies of prosecutors but their defense attorney equivalents. And one can always dream of a day when tort lawyering is finally nationalized; no longer will scumbags get rich suing people, but instead they’ll draw down a cool $9.75/hour, win or lose. Perhaps then we can finally put the scourge of shystering in its place.