Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Whadaya Call 5000 Lawyers at the Bottom of the Ocean?

Are there too many laws in education?

...too many lawyers?
Those questions are under consideration over at EdJurist:

Megan McArdle at The Atlantic reminded me of a topic I have been wanting to come back to ... the amount of law in education. At ELA this year, we had Philip K. Howard give a general session on his book Life Without Lawyers, the general premise of which is that there is too much law (and relatedly too many lawyers) in society and that we would all be better off if we generally reduced the amount of rules...

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