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1987 Newsl. 1 (1987)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews1987 and id is 1 raw text is: th Presient Addres ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS & ONE DUPONT CIRCLE 9 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 NO. 87-1 JANUARY 1987 LEGAL EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONALISN By Victor G. Rosenblum (Prepared for delivery to the House of Representatives of the Association of American Law Schools, January 5, 1987, Los Angeles) Legal education is in no danger of being inundated in 1987 by compliments and bouquets. Law teachers, practitioners, judges and other internal and external commentators continue to critique legal education's content, methodology, anatomy, orifices, secretions and excretions meticulously and with a plethora of prescriptions and proscriptions for enhancing skills, efficacy, ethics and consonance with custom, morality, social science and framer's intent. That's all to the good! Smugness and ease do not become us. Malaise, tension, perennial certainty that the status quo should be reformed have typically spurred us to constructive action. I cheered three years ago when President Bok of Harvard called upon educators and practitioners to recognize and rectify the torpor of our legal system in which there is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. I still cheered, while also chafing a mite, when President Stevens of Haverford charged in his book Law School that most law professors' chief and sometimes only skill was the analytical one associated with the parsing of cases. If I didn't quite cheer a month ago when William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, lashed legal educators in a talk at my law school, I had to appreciate at least his vital contribution to law teachers' arterial fluidity. The juices flowed mightily as a result of his insistence that most law professors are aligned philosophically with the liberal left and are more concerned with cultivating new recruits to their ideology than they are with teaching the Constitution. Whether right or wrong, temperate or virulent, such statements provide challenges and stimuli that enhance and tone the muscles of the law teachers. We're increasingly conscious of our obligations as educators of, conduits to, and role EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: MILLARD H. RUUD EDITOR: JANE M. LABARBERA, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR ASST. EDITOR: BARBARA STUDENMUND, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATE At> [to loks Q

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