Law School Deans, Law Schools

Being A Law School Dean Right Now Is Really, Really, Really Hard

It's hard out here for a dean.

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Sure, I am struggling with the challenges which you all share of being a law school dean. Every one of you reading this whimsy knows it’s not easy. Law schools have been the punching bag of the media for the past couple of years, with complaints about the high cost of a legal education, the loss of legal jobs and declining applications to law schools. I may be a newcomer to the field, with joyful exuberance and optimism, but I get that it’s not easy. I have been accused of many things during my long lobbying and political career, but being naïve is not one of them.

— Dean Nick Allard of Brooklyn Law School, commenting on the constant struggles he faces as a law school dean. He shouldn’t have room to complain, though — after all, he’s “dean of the best (and yes I know only) law school in the biggest most vibrant borough, in the greatest city, in the leading state, in the best country on the planet.”

(For the record, Brooklyn Law is the “best” and only U.S. law school that’s offering its unemployed graduates a partial tuition refund.)

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