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Abstract
This Article offers a thoughtful comparison of the legal educational systems of the United States and New Zealand. The author highlights the significant differences between these two legal educational systems by contrasting their admissions policies, clinical programs, "law-and-economics" electives, and staffing of required courses. Based on this analysis, the author concludes that although U.S. law schools are clearly "better," such superiority may have been achieved at too high of a cost, in terms of both the substantial resources now devoted to legal education which could otherwise be applied to alternative uses and the problematic effects of the stratified legal educational system on the overall social structure of the United States. He suggests that U.S. legal education reformers should devote more attention to formulating and assessing possible alternative legal educational systems of a less expensive and more egalitarian nature.
Recommended Citation
Gregory S. Crespi,
Comparing United States and New Zealand Legal Education: Are U.S. Law Schools Too Good?,
31 Vanderbilt Law Review
31
(2021)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol31/iss1/5