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Judges and Judiciary

Dec. 16, 1999

Let Employers Insist If Three Years of Law School Is Necessary

FORUM There is no need for government to be telling the country that a lawyer to be worth his salt must have had at least three years of law school. Page 6.

        By Richard A. Posner
        
        We have no theory of education, and so the only way an educational policy or program can be evaluated is by subjecting it to competition. When government prescribes educational policy, not just for public schools but for all schools, it thwarts the competitive process. That is the situation with regard t...

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