Posted on 12/25/2008 5:49:22 AM PST by reaganaut1
A law school opening next fall in Southern California is offering a big incentive to top students who might be thinking twice about the cost of a legal education during the recession: free tuition for three years. The offer is part of a strategy by Erwin Chemerinsky, a renowned constitutional law scholar and dean of the new school at the University of California, Irvine, to attract Ivy League-caliber students to the first new public law school in the state in 40 years. The law school hopes to offer full scholarships to all 60 members of its inaugural class in 2009. Mr. Chemerinsky is convinced the prospect of free education, combined with a public-interest curriculum and the University of California moniker, will fill his first class and land Irvine among the nations best law schools. Our goal is to be a top 20 law school from the first time we are ranked, he said.
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Who’s paying for it?
Seems to me that having so many lawyers in the Senate is clear evidence that this body is not representative of its citizens, nor is it attracting the best, brightest and most accomplished Americans, by any stretch of the imagination.
Lincoln read law.
fyi - Erwin Chemerinsky.
CA and the rest of the US has a terrible shortage of nurses. Many people want to become nurses but there are not enough slots in nursing schools for them. So these idiots open a law school instead of a nursing school. And Hewitt is a typical lawyer who plays both sides of the deck. IIRC he also supported McCain’s amnesty for illegals along with Michael Medved.
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