Should Law Schools Teach Ethics if They Break the Law?

Law school deans often assume an aura of intellectual superiority and moral authority ever ready
to opine about how some other person or institution should act. In fact, law schools and their
captains seem in an odd sense to be above the law.

The brief abstract confirms that last thought. Specifically, two Emory University Professors note
the criminal culpability of many laws schools, their deans and other administrators for wire fraud
and other offenses for their falsification of admission test scores, undergraduate grades of the
students they admit, and the success of their graduates in finding full time employment as
attorneys after graduation.

The story was first written in 2012 and apparently there havent been any arrests of law school
deans since. Although its thus unlikely that any law school dean or administrator will be
criminally prosecuted for conduct that was patently illegal, thus perhaps proving that they are
above the law, shouldnt this misconduct at least prompt someone to question whether these
schools are in a position to teach ethics to anyone?

11/15/2017 Lawrence B. Hunt of Hunt & Associates, P.C. All rights reserved.