kill UC irvine law school, UCLA law prof says.

[julie anne]

The University of California system is struggling to keep its budget balanced amidst the greater California budget crisis. One law professor's solution? Don't open any new schools.

Specifically, kill plans to open the new UC Irvine School of Law - which is set to welcome its first class Aug. 19 for orientation - says Professor Stephen M. Bainbridge of UCLA Law.

"Today, with state revenues having plummeted faster and further ... we simply can't afford Irvine's law school.

Odds are, with the California economy doing even worse than the nation as a whole, we have even less need for extra lawyers than we did when the (California  Postsecondary Education Commission) rejected the Irvine proposal back in 2006.

I'm firmly convinced that UC Berkeley and UCLA will come out of the current troubles in excellent shape. We have great alumni whose support continues to grow despite the economy. But I see no reason for the state to spend a dime on Irvine.

Kill it now and put the money to better use, such as helping reverse some of the cuts to undergraduate education."

For Bainbridge's argument in full, read his blog post here.

Comments

[John E McCue]

Julie Anne, you are not up on the history of Northern California trying to stop UCLA being built. Even the "Grapes of Wrath" folks then becoming the major foes of immigrants into California.
And now we have Julie Anne wanting to stop the UCI law school. How about an online law school Julie Anne. (Stanford has 30 graduate degrees in engineering).
As the history of the old school boards made up of the local farmers (the Republicans of the time), they did not want the students to move up in class or jobs since they wanted them to stay as farm field hands.

[Sam Behar]

I agree with Bainbridge. The California Postsecondary Higher Education Commission recommended against the UCI Law School because it said there were already and would be in the future many more law school graduates than the state needs. But the UC Regents and OC lawyers supported the school because there wasn't a prestigious enough (for them) law school in the region. UCI's website is full of blatant untruths, such as alleging that law professors' high salaries proves that there is a dearth of lawyers. Law professors have high salaries because there are so many applicants and so few positions. Meanwhile, law firms are closing because they have no business, and UCI wants to flood the market even more. Just another example of how the UC system doesn't serve the needs of the public.

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