Are Full-time Internet Law Schools the Beginning of the End for Traditional Legal Education?
R J Salzer (2004) 12(4) Legal Education Digest 7 12 CommLaw Conspectus 102, 2004, pp 1–26 ‘Distance learning’ is defined as ‘the process of extending learning, or delivering instructional resource-sharing opportunities, to locations away from a classroom, building or site, to another classroom, building or site by using video, audio, computer, multimedia communications, or some combination of these with other traditional delivery methods.’ In 2001 a serious blow was dealt to the ABA’s ‘monopoly’ over legal education. In United States v. American Bar Association, the US District Court for the District of Columbia determined that the ABA had ‘restrained competition by fixing compensation levels of professional personnel at ABA-approved schools and by acting in ways to limit competition from non-ABA-approved schools’. Despite this decision, little has changed. However, a new development in Internet education stands to pose a serious threat to both the ABA and those who believe that the on
