Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Harvard Law graduate, writes here about law schools, noting that to a great extent they are merely training grounds for young statists who want to use the law to “remake society” (sound familiar?) and which provide secure, well-paid employment for professors who don’t teach legal essentials, but prattle on and on about their pet theories on what is wrong with America.

As I have argued often, going through law school is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for becoming a competent lawyer. It will be a fine development if and when those who want to enter legal practice can do so without this prodigious waste of time and money.