Ethics

The AP ran a story on the expanding number of US law school, even though those schools might be an economic disaster for many of their students.  I will now quote not the AP reporter's words but rather the words of a law professor who was quoted in the article.  (I say this because the AP is apparently getting aggressive on the issue of linking to, and quoting from, their articles.  But I will quote only from the professor, William Henderson, who presumably owns whatever copyright protections exist in his own words.)

If we really started unpacking these numbers, we would see some really unattractive accounting how law schools classify their graduates. It would be borderline scandalous.

I am scandalized by the lack of information, and misleading information, flowing from law schools to applicants and students.  It's not fair and it's sometimes a consumer fraud issue.  And, when we see law students become lawyers who are enmeshed in scandals that involve "cooking the books," we might well ask, "where in the world did law students get the idea that responsible grown-ups are supposed to play with the numbers like that?"