Is a Law Degree a Good Investment Today?
2nd December 2011
Clue: No.
Would students go to med schools that boasted of having as teachers people who had never seen a patient? And yet that’s what most big-name law schools depend on. The way to a fabulous lifetime job as a law professor is to go to a top-tier law school, make law review, clerk for a federal judge or (even better) Supreme Court justice, and then slip into your professorate. (If you’re feeling adventurous, you can work in-house for some government agency or legislator.) The wipe-the-farmyard-dirt-off-your-boots guys who have actually practiced law are relegated to the ranks of ‘adjunct’ faculty (and you can hear the sneer when the tenured profs say it) who are only hired when third-year students are panicking because they’ve realized that they have no clue where to go to file a lawsuit (should the occasion ever arise, which it probably won’t).