{"id":367,"date":"2011-03-10T13:02:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T19:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/?p=367"},"modified":"2011-03-10T15:55:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T21:55:53","slug":"new-law-school-for-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2011\/03\/10\/new-law-school-for-delaware\/","title":{"rendered":"New Law School for Delaware?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Does Delaware Need Another Law School?\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0 No!,<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Francis G.X. Pileggi argues that the University of Delaware (UD) ought not open a law school.\u00a0 According to a Letter from the President,<\/a> <\/em>In December 2010, the UD Board of Trustees authorized a “feasibility study and business plan” for a law school at its Newark campus.\u00a0 Why does UD need a law school?\u00a0 Well, not because Delaware has no public law school.\u00a0 Rather, UD’s strategic plan calls for one.\u00a0 As the UD president put it in his letter:<\/p>\n

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No matter what group of universities UD uses for comparison purposes, we stand out as one of the few without a professional degree program in law or medicine.<\/p>\n

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To achieve parity with the nation’s leading higher education institutions, one of the most impactful investments we can make is in the founding of a law school. * * * [T]he establishment of a law school has the potential to support UD’s growing prominence and move us into the next rank of American higher education.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps the feasibility study will conclude that we do not need more law schools (see Do We Need More Law Schools?<\/a>), <\/em>in part because the number of applicants to ABA-approved law schools peaked in 2004 (see Flat Demand and More Law Schools<\/a><\/em>).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

One might hope that a public law school would be cheaper and allow students a path to a JD with lower debt loads (see Law School Debt Loads<\/a><\/em>).\u00a0 But, given the state of the economy and public attitudes towards higher taxes, state funding of higher education keeps getting cut.\u00a0 As a result, public universities are increasingly being privatized\u2013forced to rely primarily on (increasing) tuition.<\/p>\n

For other perspectives, see Professors Steve Bainbridge<\/a>\u00a0 and Larry Ribstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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