Why Law School Should Be an Undergraduate Program — Minding The Campus: In most parts of the world, lawyers are formally trained in an undergraduate degree program. The Bachelor of Law (LL.B), is also an accelerated three-year curriculum. In the United States it takes over twice as long. First you need a 4-year undergraduate degree in any subject—a gratuitous requirement, as there is no such thing as […]
Thoughts?
There's something to this suggestion, particularly since law school has become essentially a trade school, as that's what the law is now, a trade.
But it shouldn't be, which might be why law school shouldn't be either.