Law Mart: Justice, Access, and For-Profit Law Schools (Anthropology of Policy)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (925 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1503603016 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Tejani's skills as anthropologist and lawyer shine in this incisive account of U.S. Tamanaha Washington University School of Law)"Law Mart offers an extremely insightful and smart analysis of for-profit law schools. With deceptive ease, his lucid prose moves us from analyses of the market and the economy, through morality and legal ethics, to deeply-rooted ethnography that takes us into the heart of a malaise in U.S. Given the current conservative political climate of deregulation and laissez-faire
"Scary" according to Renzo Piano. Scary, and great read.
Seizing on a deregulatory policy shift at the American Bar Association, private equity financiers established the first for-profit law schools in the early 2000s with the stated mission to increase access to justice by "serving the underserved". law student debt burdens while charging premium tuition financed up-front through federal loans over time. Building on theories in law, political economy, and moral anthropology, Tejani reveals how for-profit law schools marketed themselves directly to ethnoracial and socioeconomic "minority" communities, relaxed admission standards, increased diversity, shook up established curricula, and saw student success rates plummet. Many blame overregulation and seek a "free" market to solve the problem, but this has already been tested. Enrollment is down, student loan debt is up, and the profession's supply of high-paying jobs is shrinking. If economic theories have so influenced legal scholarship, what happens when they come to shape law school transactions, governance, and oversight? For students promised professional citizenship by these institutions, is there a need for protectio
. Riaz Tejani is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at University of Illinois Springfield