Creating an Effective Law School Mission

Abstract

This chapter of Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World includes contributions from three authors:

• Section A, The Accreditation Context and the Law School Mission, is by Judith Welch Wegner.
• Section B, Mission Statements that Accurately Define, Distinguish, and Reflect the Law School's Praxis, is by Vanessa Merson & Irene Scharf.

Chapter 2 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637068

Chapter 3 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637102

Chapter 4 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637490

Chapter 5 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637495

Chapter 6 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637499

Chapter 7 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637541

Chapter 8 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637544

The content of this SSRN posting is material that was published in the book Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World, Maranville, et al., Lexis Nexis 2015. The content has been posted on SSRN with the express permission of Lexis Nexis and of Carolina Academic Press, publisher of the book as of January 1, 2016.

Keywords: law schools, legal education, accreditation, American Bar Association, ABA, standards, mission statements