Antonin Scalia, Commencement Address at William & Mary Law School,Reflections on the Future of the Legal Academy (May 11, 2014):
What I want to discuss with you briefly—and I promise to be brief—is whether (to be blunt about it) you have essentially wasted one of your three years here, and could have done the job in two. It is a current proposal for reformthat law students should be permitted to sit for the bar exam and otherwise be eligible to practice law after only two years of study....
Monday’s oral argument for the class arbitration dispute in Oxford Health Plans v. Florida before the US Supreme Court contained some expected points and some unexpected points. As expected, the argument revolved around the question of the extent to which the Court should defer to the decision of the arbitrator, who interpreted the arbitration clause to authorized class arbitration, or instead to treat the matter as a question of law under the Federal Arbitration Act, with a strong presumption...
