Newswise — With the legal profession in flux, law school tuition continually increasing and the value of a law degree in question, legal education may see some significant changes in the future.
The University of Iowa College of Law will host a conference exploring the future of legal education on Feb. 25 and 26 on the UI campus in Iowa City. Participants will include scholars, law deans, practitioners and judges, who will discuss what sorts of changes they would like to see in law school curriculum and teaching methods. Among those who will participate are such prominent law school deans as Erwin Chemerinsky of UC-Irvine, who is building the university’s law school from scratch; David E. Van Zandt of Northwestern; and Kent D. Syverud of Washington University in St. Louis.
Also participating is Justice David Baker of the Iowa Supreme Court, Judge Deanell Tacha of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel Barrows. Discussion topics include the economic viability of a law degree, whether diversity is really important in law schools, recreating the ideal law school, the ABA and the control of legal education, the perspective from thebench of law schools, and whether law schools or employers are more responsible for preparing lawyers.
More information is available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~ilr/content/symposium_flyer.pdf.
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