And it is well known that it ranks behind Princeton's famed law school ?*… because there is no MIT law school. Yet. It might not be a bad idea.That's probably a bad move if they claim to have attended MIT Law School.When I see MIT graduates applying for my positions I interview them right away without even looking at CV.
(I don't think there's anyone on the planet that would argue USA needs another law school. Indeed, my US legal acquaintances seem to have a consensus that law school could be a 2 year degree and cover the necessary ground. However that would leave a lot of unemployed law professors.
What interested me was that there are so few law school profs that have ever practiced law-- an undergrad degree in Philosophy and a Phd in Economics seemed to be the preferred background. The majority of learning as to "how to lawyer" seems to be on the job. Imagine a medical school education where you never saw a patient (this was very much closer to the norm 40 years ago in medicine, however).
* Princeton does, however, have a really top class MBA programme, I hear - better than Harvard's.
Statistics: Posted by Valuethinker — Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:17 pm — Replies 29 — Views 1035