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Here’s the more serious Harvard Law controversy: only 17% of their 2018 class went to work for orgs dedicated to serving the bottom 95% of the income bracket. If we care about the “everyone deserves a lawyer” idea, then HLS should produce more lawyers for ordinary people!
For every government lawyer (including PDs and prosecutors) Harvard produced last year, it produced 17 (!) corporate interest lawyers. These numbers belie the idea that the school is currently taking seriously the “everyone deserves a lawyer” principle!
If anyone at HLS is mad about Sullivan’s removal as a dormitory dean, they should also be mad that HLS has stood by since 1995, as real spending on indigent defense has fallen even as the number of felony cases has increased by almost 40 percent!
They should be outraged that HLS has stood by as 80% of civil legal needs of poor Americans go unmet each year because Legal Services Corporation budgets were slashed over the past decades by an onslaught of right-wing defunding campaigns.
This is domestic violence victims not getting restraining orders, veterans not getting benefits, moms getting evicted from their homes, — and, on the criminal side, 90%+ of defendants forfeiting their right to trial because they took a (often unfair) plea deal.
Indeed, everybody deserves a good, well-paid lawyer. But principles need material realization through political action...
... We need to adequately fund public defense, we need a civil Gideon, we need to end mandatory arbitration, we need to expand class actions, and we need public law offices in every post office so ordinary people, not just the rich, can have their rights vindicated in court!
Harvard Law can play a role in leading that charge. The legal system doesn’t have a National Institute of Health or Center for Disease Control like the health system does. The law schools need to play that role: as centers for public justice.
If there is increased fervor this week around the “everyone deserves a lawyer” principle, then perhaps that can be channeled into reviving this public interest spirit at HLS!
I'd say all law schools should. I'm in school and in my class I can only think of me and 1 other student that want to be public defenders.
and pay taxes on their endowment
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