CARRINGTON REPORT
A report delineating proposed changes in LEGAL EDUCATION submitted by Professor Paul D. Carrington of the University of Michigan School of Law, chairman of the Curriculum Study Project Committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), to the AALS on September 7, 1971.
The Carrington Report represented the
combined efforts of a committee of legal scholars,
but Professor Carrington, due to his role as
chairperson, was instrumental in compiling the
report. It aroused some controversy among
legal educators and commentators at the time
of its publication because of the extensiveness
of its proposed changes in legal education,
particularly in terms of revisions of law school
curricula.
The Carrington Report challenges the traditional
requirements for a law degree: four years of undergraduate study and three years of law
school. The report indicates that the contents
and length of the traditional program inhibit the
prompt, competent, and efficient delivery of
necessary legal services to society.
