Law schools should cut tuition by slashing staff and reducing law professors’ salaries, said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a recent commencement speech. What do Texas law deans think about the proposal?
While addressing law graduates on May 11 at William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law in Virginia, Scalia said he “vigorously” dissents against an idea to cut the third year of law school and replace it with one year of skills-based experience in a court or law firm. Scalia also criticized law schools for cutting “core” curriculum and offering “silly” electives.
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