Coming Crash in Legal Education: How We Got Here, and Where We Go Now, The
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Bourne, Richard W.
Issue Date
2012
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45
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|The initial impetus for writing this Article came in the form of the tragic death of one of my former students just a little over a decade and a half ago. The student, a bright, sweet young man, a terrific student with his whole life lying before him, failed to get the job he had hoped for in one of the larger law firms that serve the city where I have taught for over thirty years. The young man had just rented his first apartment, bought his first car, and become newly engaged to marry his girlfriend when he got the bad news. He felt trapped by debt and pride. Rather than tell anybody, he drove to Annapolis and jumped off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. |The awful news of this young man's death caught those of us who thought we knew him completely by surprise. For me, his story brought home, for the first time, the sad reality that there might be something wrong with the way we were getting young men and women to put their futures in hock in order to finance their educations. After a few brief talks with colleagues, my attention went elsewhere...
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45 Creighton L. Rev. 651 (2011-2012)
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Creighton University School of Law