Welcome
to our twelfth episode of The Legal Watchdog podcast.
Today
we discuss legal education reform and, more specifically, my recently published
essay Three Rules for Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers. These rules are so simple that even law professors could implement them!
First, professors should teach a real body of law, instead of the
useless mishmash of cases found in the typical casebook. Second, professors should teach all of the
topics within a given subject area, rather than just the topics they find
interesting. And third, professors
should publish law review articles that are useful to lawyers and judges. Matt, of course, disagrees with many of my
ideas; surprisingly, though, so does Amy.
(Knightly would have agreed with me, but he was off on a wine tasting
tour of northern Wisconsin .)
Here
are additional links to some of the things we referenced in the podcast:
My
other law review articles are available here.
The
law review article (not mine) simply titled Fuck can be found here. (Hat tip to my favorite law blog, the Irreverent Lawyer, for alerting me to that one.)
A
discussion of the Texas law profs
raking in huge salaries, bonuses, and even “forgivable loans” can be found here.
We
also mentioned the scam blog movement — a group of blogs that exposed, well,
the law school scam. This movement is
probably chiefly responsible for the huge decline in law school
enrollment. (The practicing lawyers of
the country thank you, scam bloggers!)
Some of my favorite scam blogs include OTLSS, LSTC, ITLSS, 3TR, JDD,
LSTB, and ATL.
To meet your podcast hosts, click here.
Our funky, jazzy theme song ("Cold Hurt") and our cool intermission song ("Murgatroyd") were generously provided by David Pizarro. To hear more of David's music you can listen to his philosophy-psychology podcast Very Bad Wizards, or go directly to his SoundCloud page.
Finally, here is the podcast: