Law schools are cash cows to universities. They don’t cost that much to operate, other than professor salaries, and you have a lot of potential student interest and high student-prof ratios. You can have local adjuncts help with teaching for a pittance.

However, like others I wonder why we need a fifth law school in a state that doesn’t have enough legal jobs for the people graduating from the ones we do have.

I think a lot of people are going to be graduating sadly disappointed.

Christian constitutional values are under assault, and people who believe in them should stand up and defend them.

What are Christian constitutional values?

Trollfessor - 17 September 2010 09:06 AM

Christian constitutional values are under assault, and people who believe in them should stand up and defend them.

What are Christian constitutional values?

Is this Hardy’s?

What is wrong with Liberty? Seems the ABA has accredited them. That’s all Troll needs---"official" recognition of whatever. He is guy whose ethics are defined by what is law and what is not law so it seems if the BY GAWD ABA says they are legit then they are legit.

Which is more offensive a government operated law school like LSU and Southern or a private law school run by Christain schools?

AnAmericanInParis - 06 September 2010 10:05 AM

Five law schools in Louisiana are too many.  Those of us graduating this year are having enough trouble finding jobs as it is!  Is it really wise to saturate the market even more?  Plus, WHO will go to this school?  It will take anywhere from 10 to 15 years to be accredited - the result is extreme bottom-of-the-barrel law students who, if they couldn’t get into LSU, Tulane, Loyola, or Southern, probably shouldn’t be practicing law in the first place!

Terrible decision for the state and legal community as a whole, but I can understand the selfish motives.

What difference does it make and what business of the state is it that a private entity wishes to establish a law school???

I. B. Freeman - 17 September 2010 10:22 AM

What is wrong with Liberty? Seems the ABA has accredited them. That’s all Troll needs---"official" recognition of whatever. He is guy whose ethics are defined by what is law and what is not law so it seems if the BY GAWD ABA says they are legit then they are legit.

Which is more offensive a government operated law school like LSU and Southern or a private law school run by Christain schools?

You’re entertaining, if nothing else.

IB, just so you know, ABA accreditation is a huge factor in considering law schools. For example, being a graduate of an ABA accredited law school is one of the requirements for admission to the Bar.

So congratulations to Liberty University, I wish them well in their endeavors.

I’d still like to know what Christian constitutional values are though.

AnAmericanInParis - 06 September 2010 10:05 AM

Five law schools in Louisiana are too many.  Those of us graduating this year are having enough trouble finding jobs as it is!  Is it really wise to saturate the market even more?  Plus, WHO will go to this school?  It will take anywhere from 10 to 15 years to be accredited - the result is extreme bottom-of-the-barrel law students who, if they couldn’t get into LSU, Tulane, Loyola, or Southern, probably shouldn’t be practicing law in the first place!

Terrible decision for the state and legal community as a whole, but I can understand the selfish motives.

Too Many Laws!
by Hardy Parkerson, J.D.  on April 1, 2005.  © All rights reserved

The phone’s been a-ringin’
Off the wall.
People with problems
Continue to call.
“Too many lawyers,”
I’ve heard ‘em say.
But I say, “We don’t
Have enough today.”
People got problems
And serious ones too;
Come see the lawyer
To learn what to do.
Some of ‘em even got
A few bucks to pay;
And when they do,
It makes my day.
Law books becomin’
A thing of the past.
Wonder how long
This thing’s gonna last.
Just got a call from the F.B.I.;
Wants to talk to my client
Who ain’t gonna lie.
I need a break,
Just a brief pause.
It’s not too many lawyers,
But too many laws!

Trollfessor - 17 September 2010 11:27 AM

I. B. Freeman - 17 September 2010 10:22 AM

What is wrong with Liberty? Seems the ABA has accredited them. That’s all Troll needs---"official" recognition of whatever. He is guy whose ethics are defined by what is law and what is not law so it seems if the BY GAWD ABA says they are legit then they are legit.

Which is more offensive a government operated law school like LSU and Southern or a private law school run by Christain schools?

You’re entertaining, if nothing else.

IB, just so you know, ABA accreditation is a huge factor in considering law schools. For example, being a graduate of an ABA accredited law school is one of the requirements for admission to the Bar.

So congratulations to Liberty University, I wish them well in their endeavors.

I’d still like to know what Christian constitutional values are though.

Entertaining? humm---Have you forgotten our conservation some months ago about ethics?? I forget the exact act that I said was unethical but you went to great pains to explain to me that it was not unethical because it was not against any laws??? 

I don’t feel like looking it up because I am sure you will remember since you had such strong convictions that if it was legal it was ethical.

IB that was merely a lack of communication, we used the same term differently.  That happens sometimes, especially when lawyers and non-lawyers speak, it really isn’t a big deal.

Trollfessor - 17 September 2010 01:20 PM

IB that was merely a lack of communication, we used the same term differently.  That happens sometimes, especially when lawyers and non-lawyers speak, it really isn’t a big deal.

Trollfessor - 02 February 2010 01:00 PM
IB, I did not vote for the man (because I thought he was avoiding debates, I wanted him to go into a runoff so he would debate; I probably would have voted for him in the runoff), and do not see it as my duty to defend him.  Further, I agree with some of your criticisms of him since he has been in office.

That said, the way you’re phrasing it now isn’t sitting right with me.

I’m a lawyer and can’t escape my education and training; I have to look at it from that perspective.

So when you say this:

I.B. Freeman Just because something is legal certainly does not make it ethical.

it makes me pause.

IB, our state has a Code of Governmental Ethics, it is at RS 42:1101 et seq. The Louisiana Board of Ethics administers those laws, and provides a nice summary of them here.  Additional information on those laws is here.

By your own admission, Jindal has not violated those laws.  Thus, under our law, Jindal has acted ethically.

Despite his following the law, you remain displeased with Jindal.  That is your right, of course.  But again, in this instance, it appears that your real complaint is with the laws themselves, and not Jindal.

I.B. Freeman
So you are saying ethics and ethical behavior is properly spelled out in the law and that if a person, the governor in the case, stays within the law he is “ethical”? that as long as it is “legal” it is ethical?

If he stands up in front of crowd and says “I going to give every citizen $1 million” knowing full well it is not in his power he has broken no laws. Is he any less a liar because there is no law against such lies?

I suppose if you elect, as you seem to do, to limit your view of right and wrong, good and evil, or ethical and unethical by what some body of people declared to be the government has defined as law then Jindal is a good ethical governor.

I am not going to allow a legislative body to define my moral views as I hope any independent thinker would resist.

I think your next post had this on it:

You were quite clear that if Jindal did not violate any laws hobnobbing around the country on contributor’s airplanes and taking their super bowl tickets that you didn’t care. From that conversation any body would have the impression the legislature sets your ethical standards.

I. B. Freeman - 17 September 2010 02:14 PM

You were quite clear that if Jindal did not violate any laws hobnobbing around the country on contributor’s airplanes and taking their super bowl tickets that you didn’t care. From that conversation any body would have the impression the legislature sets your ethical standards.

Your first sentence is true, your second is not.