For the first time in decades, this summer’s end brings America’s students back to campus in a nation worrying about the safety of our homeland. Although the country’s need for soldiers, doctors and engineers is palpable, the increase in law school applications, up 23 percent nationwide and 46 percent at the University of Connecticut, is capturing headlines.
Those seeking a bottom-line explanation for the sudden interest in legal affairs point to the collapse of the dot.com boom. Young adults, cheered on by parents, apparently are rushing toward the safety of a time-honored profession. As a legal educator, I would welcome the new faces even if the only motive were old-fashioned dollars and cents. But I don’t doubt the perspicacity of applicants who say they see the value of the first-rate analytical training that law schools provide. This training will serve law grads in a variety of careers and produce a generation of professionals who see virtues in competing points of view.
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