The bloom is way off the law school rose. Interest in obtaining a JD is down as more and more young people learn that the field is awash in would-be attorneys and that the credential costs far too much if you just want something that “opens doors.” The time seems ripe for serious changes in legal education and that is the topic of my Pope Center Clarion Call today.

I spar with one professor who believes that law schools need to change so they can become more “inclusive.” The change that we really need is to liberate legal education from the self-interested clutches of the American Bar Association, which for nearly a century has insisted on a model that raises costs and inhibits the market’s discovery process.