Law schools have come under fire for being diploma mills. Several schools have been sued by disgruntled grads for misleading them about job and salary statistics.
As law schools are pulling back on the number of new admittees, Yale Law School announced they are inventing a whole new type of law degree – a law PHD program.
Yale announced that the new law PHD program will train law grads that have ambitions on becoming law professors. Given that Yale produces a tenth of the law professors nationwide, it makes sense that Yale would have such a program.
Let’s be read: being a law professor is a plum position.
So many highly credentialed attorneys are now turning to PHD programs in unrelated fields like economics and philosophy to get a leg up on the competition, reports the ABA Journal. It’s because of this need to become ever more credentialed that has led Yale to create the “first of its kind” law PHD program.
The law PHD program will “contribute to law’s continuing maturation as an academic discipline by creating a space within the academy for reflection on and training in the methodologies of legal scholarship,” announced the school. If you understand what this means, you probably deserve the PHD.
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