Why Law School Should Be an Undergraduate Program — Minding The Campus: In most parts of the world, lawyers are formally trained in an undergraduate degree program. The Bachelor of Law (LL.B), is also an accelerated three-year curriculum. In the United States it takes over twice as long. First you need a 4-year undergraduate degree in any subject—a gratuitous requirement, as there is no such thing as […]
Thoughts?
I'm not sure that I agree, but there'es something to the suggestion.
Meet The Press's host interviewed retired United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer on last weekend's episode.
The episode is worth listening to, but due to Chuck Todd and Kristen Welker going after their employer, NBC, for getting them set up in an interview of Ronna McDaniel after it turns out that NBC has hired McDaniel to be a pundit. Suffice it to say, McDaniel won't be inviting them to any after work gatherings. But the interview of Breyer was pointless.
Which is huge legal news.
The court strongly hinted it might do this in one of its decisions last year. Now it appears it is going to do it.
I'm late in posting this and, frankly, so many things have been posted it would hardly be necessarily.
Justice O'Connor was the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Frankly, even though this came in relative terms, in 1981, fairly close to the pioneering appointment of an African American to the Supreme Court bench, it was later than it should have been. Having said that, like Nixon going to China, coming by way of a conservative, Ronald Reagan, perhaps it meant more in real terms than it would have had it come under an earlier President, such as Jimmy Carter.
O'Connor had been a member of the Arizona Court of Appeals at the time of her appointment. She was a Westerner by birth, having been raised on a 198,000 acre cattle ranch in that state. She attended Stanford as an undergrad and as a law student, and oddly enough had received a proposal of marriage from William Rehnquist while still a student.
Her accomplishments cannot be denied, but frankly, like a lot that Reagan did, her appointment has a mixed record. I frankly don't think she was as great of jurist as people now wish to recall, and like many of the "conservative" justice of her era, she was conservative only in a very reserved way. True conservatives wouldn't really reappear on the Supreme Court for many years, none of which takes away from her personal accomplishments.
