Unaccredited Law School Dean Wants Bush Hanged
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Compares Bush to Nazi and Japanese War Criminals
The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover (MSLA), an unaccredited law school, was established in 1988 “to provide a legal education to minorities, immigrants and students from low-income families” is calling for the hanging of President Bush. Its Dean Lawrence Velvel will stage a September 2008 conference to plan the prosecution of President Bush and other administration officials for war crimes.” to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the earth, and … insist on appropriate punishments, including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war criminals in the 1940s.”
The MSLA lost its antitrust lawsuit against the American Bar Association and American Association of Law School for denying its accreditation. Its call for a war crime tribunal against President Bush on the eve of a presidential election is generally viewed as a foolish political stunt and its Dean’s comparisons to Nazi and Japanese war crimes tribunals and those convicted as an absurdity. MSLA enjoys one of the lowest rankings among accredited or unaccredited law schools.
An Lawrence Velvel previous infamity is his unremitting attacks on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his bizarre lament that there are too few products of mediocre law schools on the Supreme Court. Velvel has regularly called Justice Alito and Roberts “liars” while pursuing a personal vendetta against Ivy League Law Schools. MSLA fails to make the US News and Report fourth and lowest ranking tier Velvel called the New York Times “bullshit” for not joining him in opposing Alito’s nomination more vociferously a mutual evaluation others share of him.
Comment by Deb Della Piana on 22 June 2008:
The Massachusetts School of Law has not been accredited by the American Bar Association, but it is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. In addition, immediately upon graduation, students are eligible to take the BAR exam in Massachusetts and Connecticut. After passing either one of those, they can take the exams in NH, WI, VT, ME, CA, DC, MD and WV.
Yes, it’s true that it is a “small” law school and it was started so that low-income and working class people, as well as people in mid-life wanting a career change, could attend law school. These are the people who are typically shut out.
I have two friends who attend the Mass School of Law. One attends because he is paying his own way and cannot afford the tuition elsewhere. However, the other attends because of the school’s innovative approach to teaching law.
One of the sticking points to receiving the ABA accreditation is the fact that the Mass School of Law does not require the LSAT for entrance. It takes into consideration the person’s entire life record and their aspirations, rather than the subjective grading on a standardized test. The other involves the use of professors who also practice law for a living rather than the use of ‘pure’ academics to teach.
The school has, however, graduated many students who practice law for a living and others who have used their education at MSL to continue on in government.
It may not be the Harvard or Yale School of Law but, then again, it doesn’t want to be.
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Comment by Richard Cochrane on 25 June 2008:
Deb - Your point would be?
Comment by Deb Della Piana on 25 June 2008:
Hi Richard: My point is that just because MSL hasn’t been accredited by the egotistical cads on the American Bar Association, it doesn’t mean that Dean Velvel doesn’t have a point. We’re way past the point of discussing whether or not George Bush has committed impeachable offenses. The questions is whether or not these fools are going to do anything about it.
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