No, no lawyer jokes now.
According to this story, The Charlotte School of Law, a private institution, will open in August. I applaud private enterprise, even though I think this rationale is baloney: “If any city is going to be a truly great international city, you need a law school to be part of that infrastructure.”
The school’s founders decided to locate in Charlotte because North Carolina supposedly is third lowest in the number of lawyers per capita. Well, it’s their money, but I don’t think it follows that the state’s having a low per capita lawyer population means that there will be enough demand for legal training (at a cost of $26K per year just for the tuition) to make the school a success. Maybe it will be, but have they considered the possibility that NC has a low number of lawyers per capita because people here are somewhat less litigious than in, say, New York?
Anyway, the really interesting thing here is that this is a PRIVATE venture. The CSL backers think they see a good opportunity in education. I would say that if there were a real need for more dental training here, a private institution would seize that opportunity.
