Indiana State to Start Law School?
From Saturday’s Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: Indiana State to Study Possibility of Opening Law School:
Indiana State University officials are considering whether to start the state’s third public law school, saying many interested students are not being admitted elsewhere because of a lack of space. A feasibility study to be done by the school and the Indianapolis law firm Barnes and Thornburg is to be finished in June.…
But the announcement took school faculty and state higher education officials by surprise.
“We know very little about it,” said Stan Jones, the state’s higher education commissioner. “I think we need to be certain we really have a need in the state for another law school before we would walk down that path.”
This move seems ill-advised, and I can’t imagine it being accepted with open arms from the state’s other law schools.
Update: Others weighing in: Opening Arguments, Indiana Parley, and Torpor Indy.
December 12th, 2005 at 1:02 pm
As a law student I haven’t heard anyone complain about lack of space in Indiana law schools. On the contrary, with 4 law schools it seems our state has more than ample space. You’re right…it doesn’t seem likely that other law schools in the state will be supportive.
December 13th, 2005 at 8:48 pm
Sorry, Josh. I didn’t know you posted this at IB. Didn’t mean to step on your toes at ITA. By the way, this is the worst idea anyone has ever had in the history of non-explosives-based ideas.