Bloomberg Law
March 20, 2017, 9:33 PM UTC

UNH Law’s New Dean: Legal Education Needs to Change

Rebecca Beyer

Megan Carpenter thinks legal education has been isolated from other academic disciplines for far too long and that law schools need to come back into the fold.

As the newly appointed dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law, Carpenter is one of a handful of people around the country in a position to make this happen.

“We’ve looked at law school and legal education as kind of a separate, ivory tower institution, and while law school applications have declined in recent years, the need for legal knowledge among the community is greater than ever,” she said. “I think what we’re seeing is ...

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