(MA) State college presidents endorse public law school plan

Boston Globe ^ | January 13, 2010

[reaganaut1]

The presidents of the nine Massachusetts state colleges today called on the state Board of Higher Education to approve a UMass proposal to create the Commonwealth’s first public law school.

A public law school would create an “affordable pathway that allows for and encourages the pursuit of public service careers in the law,” the presidents said in a letter to Board of Higher education chairman Charles Desmond and higher education Commissioner Richard Freeland.

Under the UMass plan, the school would be part of UMass-Dartmouth. The nearby private Southern New England School of Law is donating its campus and assets to UMass, which plans to increase enrollment to sustain a public law school

[reaganaut1]

Who needs more lawyers? Especially when states (including MA) have big budget deficits, this is an absurd waste of money.

[massgopguy]

Just what we need. More graduates of “Close Cover Before Striking” Law School.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Maybe they hope they can replace Martha Coakley with a competent attorney sometime this decade!

[TChris]

Exactly what the country needs! Lower the barriers to entry for law school so we can have LOTS more lawyers with even LESS of an education!

Sheesh.

[GeronL]

we already have too many lawyers, they have to find jobs in other fields. And Dallas was thinking of doing the same thing. ugh.

[Gay State Conservative]

Clearly it will be a breeding ground for more “public servants”.As well as “slip & fall” lawyers.

[nitzy]

Law school would bore me. I’m waiting for them to open a public brain surgery school.

[Da Coyote]

Why not? It’s been obvious from our congresscritters that law schools have long ago thrown away their standards.

Kennedy? Obama? Give me a break. Those loons couldn’t run a McDonalds......but somehow got degrees from a prestigious school? Error, error.........

[Da Coyote]

Oops, my apologies to McD managers. One of the best things we could do to the small-brained nonachievers in our public service sector would be to let them see just how complicated it is to run even a small fast food establishment.

Kennedy et al couldn’t do it.

[C210N]

The constitution was 14 pages. As long as new law grows to 2000 pages and more, there will be demand for "public" lawyers.

BTW, I say 'was' 14 pages; effectively today the constitution is thousands of pages.