Law School An Oxymoron

Law School: An Oxymoron An Allegory By Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif © Copyright 2007 by Anthony J. Fejfar This is an allegorical tale about a world in which law school has ceased to exist. In fact, the Rule of Law is gone, and all that is left is a fascist dictatorship. It all started when the American Bar Association stopped regulating law schools. Of course this had been true for awhile anyway. Only the ordinary law schools ever received an A.B.A. inspection. The “top” law schools are never inspected. What rules there were, were ignored. So, for example, it is widely known that attendance is not taken at top ten law schools. No one goes to class. The whole thing is ridiculous. It is law school without school. The first assault on the Rule of Law came when top ten law schools stopped having a required course in Property law.

Because Karl Marx said private property was

evil in the Communist Manifesto, “top” law schools stopped requiring that Property be taken as a class, even though the entire common law is based in the first instance on property law. As soon a Property was gone, the final and most decisive blow was to make Constitutional Law an elective which most students did not bother taking. Karl Marx, in the Communist Manifesto asserted that Law is an illusion and the only real forces in society are economic forces.

If Law is an illusion then it soon became apparent at “top”

law schools that Constitutional Law was an illusion as well. Soon, those who argued that individual rights and due process are important, were seen as delusional. As soon as the Constitution disappeared from law schools, it also began to disappear from the Courts. Sadly, Constitutional Democracy and the Rule of Law were murdered without a shot even being fired.