Only upperclassmen are good enough for us

Law schools across America have had an impressive response to Hurricane Katrina. Many law schools are offering to take in displaced students from Tulane Law and Loyola New Orleans Law, and waiving tutition costs as long as they paid their home schools. The Association of American Law Schools has a central list for what help law schools are offering. The variety in response is interesting. Upperclassmen are vastly preferred. Stanford will accept only 5 3Ls. Harvard will take in 25 2Ls and 3Ls. Penn Law will take in 12 2Ls and 3Ls. Some schools, like California Western will take any 2L or 3L from those two schools. Only a few like McGeorge at the University of Pacific, or Notre Dame Law, will open their doors to 1Ls. The 1L year at law school is pretty much the same wherever you go. You're guaranteed to have Property, Contracts, Torts, Civil Procedural, Criminal Law, and some type of legal writing and legal research class. Some may or may not have Constitutional Law. So theoretically the substance of 1L classes at Tulane and Loyola should be the same as at Stanford. Why exclude them? It's not going to set them back when they hopefully return to their home school. Maybe it has to do with Louisana's legal system. Louisana is not a common-law state, so law schools there usually offer two tracks of study, one for Louisana civil law and one for general common law, akin to every other law school in the country.

Time for me to pay attention to Civil Procedure.