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37 Syllabus [i] (2005-2006)

handle is hein.journals/syllabus37 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 37, Number 1 Fall (Sept,) 2005 YLLABU American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Message from the New Section Chairperson By Dean Steven R. Smith, California Western School of Law T he great purpose of this Section is as challenging as it is important: seeing to the selection, preparation and acceptance of the next generation of the legal profession. To the extent we in legal education and bar admissions do that well, our country will be more efficient, more just, and a safer place to live. It is a task that we must take seriously in everything we do. Our spe- cific tasks are often detail- focused, but we must not let our broader task be lost in the docu- ments and reports. What this Section does matters, and mat- ters greatly. Like the person who plants a tree, the results of our work may be years away, but what lawyers do in the long run very much depends on the quality of their preparation. This Section has the capacity to affect the quality of that preparation. Several principles should guide the work of the Section in that important task. Three are paramount: 1. The interests of the pub- lic. The legitimate function of licensing lawyers is to protect the public. The public includes students, law firms and everyone, but here I am really referring to the people and institutions who are the ultimate clients of our graduates. We often find our- selves discussing in isolation important, but fairly narrow, topics such as law school person- nel, residence credit and book counts. We need, however, fre- quently to look up from the microscope and think about the broader picture, how we are serving the public interest. 2. High standards of quality. What we are about is so important that it demands our best. The Section and Council should hold ourselves to the highest standards of quality, and similarly hold our law schools and students to those same high standards. Slipshod work, inadequate preparation and low quality should not be accept- able to us. Individuals and institu- tions do not benefit from low expectations, so our expectations Continued on page 78 Full Approval of Two Lav Schools By Jod Puskarz, Editor he House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, during its Annual Meeting in Chicago on August 4, 2005, con- curred in the decision of the Council to grant full approval to Ave Maria School of Law and the University of District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law. Ave Maria School of Law, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was found- ed in 1999 under the leadership of Thomas S. Monaghan, philan- thropist and businessperson, and Bernard Dobranski, the school's first president and dean. The school's mission provides a legal education to develop stu- dents capable of engaging in the intelligent practice of law. The law school also seeks to train lawyers who view moral integrity as foundational to their profes- Continued on page 80 INSIDE: 12 16 26 Collection of Median LSAT/UGPA Data Annual Meeting Wrap-up Joint Working Group Report Rules Revisions

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