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In This, The Winter Of Our Discontent: Legal Practice, Legal Education, And The Culture Of Distrust, Alfred S. Konefsky, Barry Sullivan
In This, The Winter Of Our Discontent: Legal Practice, Legal Education, And The Culture Of Distrust, Alfred S. Konefsky, Barry Sullivan
Buffalo Law Review
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The History Of The American Bar Association Accreditation Standards For Academic Law Libraries, Theodora Belniak
The History Of The American Bar Association Accreditation Standards For Academic Law Libraries, Theodora Belniak
Law Librarian Journal Articles
Using materials from the American Bar Association (ABA), such as annual reports and conference reports as well as other periodical materials, this article reviews the standards used to define academic law libraries from the formation of the ABA to the present and discusses the impact of the standards on the law library as an institution.
Legal Education In Crisis, And Why Law Libraries Are Doomed, James G. Milles
Legal Education In Crisis, And Why Law Libraries Are Doomed, James G. Milles
Journal Articles
The dual crises facing legal education - the economic crisis affecting both the job market and the pool of law school applicants, and the crisis of confidence in the ability of law schools and the ABA accreditation process to meet the needs of lawyers or society at large - have undermined the case for not only the autonomy, but the very existence, of law school libraries as we have known them. Legal education in the United States is about to undergo a long-term contraction, and law libraries will be among the first to go. A few law schools may abandon …