If you look through the course curricula for law schools, rarely will you find a school offering a course in franchise law. While this may seem odd at first blush, given the widespread use of franchising as a distribution model for businesses, it is explainable.
First, while there is pressure on law schools to change the way they do business—what courses are offered and how those courses relate to real world practice—law schools are not necessarily the archetype of progressiveness. In an article published in the New York Times in 2012, the author, David Segal, reported that law schools teach everything except how to practice law.1 This raises an intriguing question: What is the purpose of law school?
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