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The First Thing We Do, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1275 (2014)

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  • Roig, Jorge R.

    (Charleston School of Law)

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There is currently a concerted effort to dumb down America. In the midst of this, the American Bar Association’s Council of the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar recently agreed to propose that tenure for law professors be eliminated as a requirement for accreditation of law schools. This article analyzes the arguments for and against tenure in legal academia, and concludes that the main proposed justifications for eliminating tenure are highly questionable, at best. A lawyer is more than a legal technocrat. Lawyers are policy makers and public defenders. They are prosecutors and activists. And the development of a critical and independent mind is no more important in any area of human action than in the law. There is a concerted effort to turn law schools into automaton production lines. Practice-ready, skills-oriented legal education (quite meritorious in itself) has become code for the manufacture of attorneys capable only of following their corporate clients’ instructions to the tee. The goal of this concerted effort is not a truly practice-ready and skilled attorney. The endgame is a mindless legal machine. That is not what a legal education is about. The survival of critical thought is at stake. This is not just about law professors. This is but one salvo in a much larger war against independent minds.

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  • Roig, Jorge R., 2018. "The First Thing We Do, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1275 (2014)," LawArXiv 9zjxu, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:lawarx:9zjxu
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/9zjxu
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