A skulk of attorneys is drinking late
into the night when one announces, “We should open a practice to teach
law. The law schools are shit.”
“Says you. I went to Harvard.”
“And yet we work at the same firm, drink
the same liquor and kiss the same ass. We both know some of my professors were
at least as good as some of yours, with an equal share of faculty shitheads. Anyway, we all know you were a pretty lousy student.”
...
If in the
morning this band of drinking buddies still want to teach law as it should be taught,
then there are only two versions of the one way to gainfully and legally doing so: 1) Get
jobs at the same school and negotiate with the institutional employer’s board,
administration, faculty, student body and the rest to effect change in curriculum,
standards, pedagogy, materials, and the rest; or 2) Open their own law school and
dictate their distilled vision for legal education.
What could go wrong, with this oversight that every higher education system needs? Unfortunately, we’ve lived the answer to that question for centuries now, in the grace and grip of higher education institutions. Only we don't know but should know what could go wrong in PSA where attorneys open their own solo or partnership academic practices offering education in law that helps qualify students for graduation with a JD or LLB from the Professional Society of Academics.
PSA is a universitas, but not a university, college or school of the inheritance.