Shouting into the Wind: How the ABA Standards Promote Inequality in Legal Education, and What Law Students and Faculty Should Do about It

Authors

Mary Beth Beazley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2020

Abstract

This Article will analyze how we might return ABA Standard 405(b) to its appropriate role as a protector of equitable treatment of full-time law faculty. First, it will analyze some of the reasons that full-time legal writing and clinical faculty are treated differently; second, it will explain how the current system hurts equality, particularly gender equality; third, it will examine how these inequalities hurt the next generation of lawyers; fourth, it will describe how the inequalities hurt the supposed goals of legal education; and finally, it will suggest what law faculty, the ABA and AALS, and law students can do to improve all kinds of equality in legal education.

Publication Citation

65 Vill. L. Rev. 1037 (2020).

Recommended Citation

Beazley, Mary Beth, "Shouting into the Wind: How the ABA Standards Promote Inequality in Legal Education, and What Law Students and Faculty Should Do about It" (2020). Scholarly Works. 1328.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/1328