Boards of Regents, or Trustees. Extramural funding Law faculties are well paid by most university standards, but few law teachers generate any of their own incomes in the way that faculty in the sciences, public health and medicine do. As the demand for resources increases, deans and senior administration officials are going to look more closely at the opportunities for gifts, grants and contracts to support the work of law faculty in the way they support the work of other professional faculty. Law teachers and law schools should explore the options with much greater vigor. Something new happens every day, and the cause remains one that is worthwhile.
American lawyers are critical to the functioning of our democracy.
We have many problems in the administration of justice and in the continuing development of the American experiment, and well trained lawyers are essential to our collective ability to deal with problems of justice and the maintenance of democracy. Thus what we are about will continue to be important, but how we go about our tasks need not remain static. While that level of success is unusual, law faculty have not begun to tap into the sources that are available.