For those of you who missed some or all of the great conversation around the question "What Kind of Institution Do We Want A Law School To Be?", here is a summary of links to the Madisonian mobblog on the topic. Deven Desai deserves particular kudos for his efforts organizing this discussion.
Mobblog: What Kind of Institution Do We Want A Law School To Be? (Deven Desai)
A Law School for the 21st Century (Erwin Chemerinsky)
Law Schools and Law Firms (Mike Madison)
“Doing What We Do Best” or “Why Law Professors Should Feel Less Guilt” (Nate Oman)
A Mini University? (Al Brophy)
What Kind of Institution Do We Want a Law School to Be? (Nancy Rapoport)
Two Cheers for Indentured Servitude (Nate Oman)
Legal Education Questions (Mike Madison)
Coordinated Classes (Fred Yen)
Some Musings About Possible Ways To Improve Law Reviews And Law Schools Simultaneously (Ann Bartow)
What Kind of Faculty Would I Want in the Ideal Law School (Nancy Rapoport)
Are Attorneys Generalists or Specialists? (Deven Desai)
A Focus on Quality of Scholarship Rather Than Placement (Al Brophy)
The Perfect Law School (Christine Hurt)
Washington and Lee’s New Model (Rod Smolla)
Law School as Community (Dan Filler)
Institutes of Excellence and the Global, Departmentalized Law School (Orly Lobel)
Learning How to Learn (Frank Pasquale)
Too Many Law Schools? (Mike Madison)
Playing the Game/Changing the Game (Frank Pasquale)
Single Sex Law Schools? (Dan Filler)
A Skeptical View of Education Reform (Frank Pasquale)
Shaping a Vision (Deven Desai)
The Economics of It All (With Some Funny Numbers) (Al Brophy)
Gender and Race in Legal Education (Mike Madison)
Education Gap (Deven Desai)
Fidelity in Translation (Jim Chen)
Crunch Time (Mike Madison)
Institutional Pluralism (Rick Garnett)
…Because things are not so bad the way they are…(on the law review front) (Orly Lobel)
Renaissance Education (Deven Desai)
Mobblog Wrap-Up (Deven Desai)