Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
The rhetoric of Chapters 3 and 4 of the ABA Standards creates, maintains, and perpetuates hierarchies in law school faculties. Those hierarchies subordinate some categories of faculty members and the courses they teach. Without change in the Standards or their implementation, these hierarchies will remain, and the values and norms of traditionally privileged faculty and subject matters will become even more firmly embedded as representing the best of the legal academy. By adopting the 405(c) “best practices” policy statement, individual law schools and law faculties take upon themselves the power to demonstrate that the ABA Standards are the floor, not the ceiling, and that legal education’s essential values and norms include robust protection of job security and academic freedom for all law professors.
Publication Citation
66 J. Leg. Educ. 553 (2017).
Recommended Citation
Berger, Linda L., "Rhetoric & Reality in the ABA Standards" (2017). Scholarly Works. 1007.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/1007