Bleg: Help Circulate the Law School Transparency Petition

In the last week of September I, or rather my research assistant on my behest, circulated the Law School Transparency Petition to the administrations of all 200 ABA law schools (with the exception of the University of Colorado), with a request that they circulate it to their faculties.  The following law school administrations agreed to do so:

Albany Law School

University of Arkansas School of Law

University of Louisville  School of Law

University of Mississippi School of Law 

University of Montana School of Law 

William Mitchell School of Law

Five law school administrations affirmatively refused to circulate it, invariably on the ground that they have an institutional policy against circulating petitions to faculty, and that such requests should be sent to individual faculty directly.   We haven't heard from the other 188 schools.

I'm now asking the readers of this blog to help circulate the petition to law school faculty at these 193 schools.  I suggest the following procedure:  If you attended or currently attend an ABA-accredited law school other than those listed above, please volunteer to circulate the petition to the faculty of that school.  You can do so either by individually emailing all the school's faculty members the letter below, or by emailing one or more selected faculty members -- ideally, people who might remember you -- and asking them to circulate the letter below to their colleagues, whether or not the selected faculty members are willing to sign the petition themselves.

In the alternative, if you're a law school faculty member and are willing to circulate the letter to your colleagues, please let me know.

Here's the letter:

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Dear

Please circulate the petition below to your faculty.   Please note that the names of signatories to this petition will not be made public until at least 100 law faculty at ABA-accredited schools have signed it.

"We, the undersigned,  believe it is imperative that all law schools provide prospective law school students with information  that will allow them to accurately assess their prospects for finding appropriate employment within the legal profession upon graduation from the schools they are considering attending. We therefore call upon the American Bar Association to require all schools it has accredited to release clear, accurate, and reasonably comprehensive information regarding graduate employment, by for example implementing the proposals outlined in Part III of the Law School Transparency Project's white paper "A Way Forward: Transparency at U.S. Law Schools" (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1528862.), so that prospective students may obtain adequate information regarding their likely future employment prospects."


Name
Institutional affiliation*


*Institutional affiliations are for identification purposes only, and do not imply approval on the part of the signatory’s employer.

The petition can be signed by simply sending an email indicating the sender wishes to sign it to:

lawschoolpetition@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Paul Campos

Professor of Law

University of Colorado

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Readers who want to participate in this effort should email me via this blog, to avoid redundant efforts.  (Feel free to note in comments if you're willing to do this for your own school).  Next week I'll post an update regarding how many law school faculties have been contacted via this method.

Thanks in advance.