Thought For the Day
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Not sure what’s meant. Does this mean there also shouldn’t be a college of engineering and a college of business within a university? (Or a just not a college of law?)
There are benefits with having colleges within, students can elect to take courses outside their focus.
I never understood why someone had to do four years of undergrad before law school other than bankrolling the colleges and universities.
In the UK law is an undergrad degree. I think an undergrad is probably a bit young to decide upon a legal career, and I doubt that most undergrads could handle the work the way law is taught in this country. The third year of law school is a waste of time, and the substantive classes could probably fit into two years, with the third year consisting of practical on the job training and bar prep. Modern legal education as the only means of becoming a lawyer is fairly recent. When I started practicing in 1982 there were still a few older attorneys who had gotten their licenses through practical experience in law offices and passage of the bar exam.
My grandparents (born about 1910) got their Maryland law degrees without college, although they never took cases to court. Grandma worked for the IRS, Grandpa was one of the “founding employees” of Social Security.