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LawSchoolClincs 4 - 09 Apr 2010 - Main.SaswatMisra
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| | I grabbed this from the Law School Links thread - I think it's a particularly pertinent topic given that 1Ls are applying for clinics right now and that it deserves its own thread
The perils of state-funded public interest work? | | | Before the University claims “academic freedom,” I think it owes us an explanation of how it chooses its clients. If the clinic is run in a way that truly respects academic freedom, the administrators of the clinic should have no trouble showing that, over time, they have represented a wide range of clients and ideologies (at least some of which should be diametrically opposed to each other). The University apparently has not been able to do this. | |
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< | Although it is easy to view Perdue as the morally-deficient party here, I think that there is just as much room for corruption on the part of the University of Maryland (or any other university). Therefore, I think it is legitimate for the legislature to try to assess the methodology by which the clinics are run. Is the University simply filing lawsuits that will make for interesting job interview talks for its students, and for after-work drinks on the Harbor? Are these lawsuits being "green-lighted" based on the ideology of a small number of administrators who run the clinic? | >
> | Although Perdue may be acting in a morally-deficient way, I think that there is just as much room for corruption on the part of the University of Maryland (or any other large organization). Therefore, I think it is legitimate for the legislature to try to assess the methodology by which the clinics are run. Is the University simply filing lawsuits that will make for interesting job interview talks for its students, and for after-work drinks on the Harbor? Are these lawsuits being "green-lighted" based on the ideology of a small number of administrators who run the clinic? Although I too worry about the implied threats that the legislature may be sending to the University in requesting the detailed information that it is, I do think that there are legitimate reasons for them to want this information. | | | | |
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< | @Nathan – I wonder if the University plays the opposite role here as does in the case of military recruiting on-campus? In military recruiting, I think it is the outside party (i.e., the federal government) that forces its mostly unwanted voice and presence onto an academic institution under the threat of monetary sanctions. In the present case, I think it is the academic institution (the University of Maryland) that forces its mostly unwanted voice and presence onto an outside party (the small farmer, and others like him), under the threat of monetary sanctions.
By the way - I am a fan of the New York Times, the environment, and the University of Maryland | | | -- SaswatMisra - 08 Apr 2010 |
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