Law Schools are Losing Their Effectiveness

George Leef

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  • January 06, 2010

So argues Suffolk University Law School professor Charles Rounds in this piece the Pope Center released Monday. The problem is that the old law school core curriculum is going the way of the undergraduate core curriculum. Essential courses such as agency are being relegated to elective status, if they're offered at all; students instead waste a lot of their time on courses that are "about the law," courses Rounds calls little more than "bad sociology."

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