Another Postscript to the Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education and the Legal Profession

The Gap Between Legal Education and the Needs of the Profession, the subject of this symposium, is a matter about which I have had much to say over the past two years. In the October 1992 edition of the Michigan Law Review, I expressed my deep concern about the growing disjunction between legal education and the legal profession, in an article with the same title

The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education and the Legal Profession: A Postscript

In this essay I offer a postscript to The Growing Disjunction. It is not possible for me to respond directly to the other participants in this symposium, because I had no opportunity before publication to read what they have written. I will therefore limit myself to two tasks. First, I will briefly discuss several issues raised in the article. Second, and most important, I wish to share a representative sample of the responses I have received regarding the article. These responses, I think, provide good evidence of the magnitude of the problem that we face

Professor Yale Kamisar: Awesome

Yale Kamisar arrived in Ann Arbor in the fall of 1965, just after I graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, so I never had him as a teacher. We were colleagues, however, for almost ten years during the 1970s when we were both members of the Michigan faculty. And we have remained good friends ever since. When the editors of the Michigan Law Review asked me if I would submit a tribute to Professor Kamisar commemorating his retirement from the faculty, I was happy to accept the invitation. Yale is one of my heroes in the academy - he is the consummate Law Professor in all the best senses of the title. And he has been a loyal and caring friend, cheering me on at every stage of my career even when I left Ann Arbor, first to teach at Harvard Law School and then to join the bench. There is no way that I would have passed up an opportunity to pay tribute to my friend and colleague

Feature: Personal reflections on 30 years of legal education for minority students

Since Judge Harry T. Edwards went to law school, affirmative action has made it easier for minorities to follow his path, yet at the same time it has devalued their achievements