It is only after educational objectives have been defined that questions of technological provision can be posed. For technology is a means, not an end in itself. There is an inevitable tension between purely academic and professional ends within legal education.
Technology can serve both, but in different ways.
It is not for this report to be prescriptive regarding the objectives of particular schools. But in describing both the opportunities and costs of information technology within legal education, it poses questions of choice regarding educational objective perhaps more starkly than is common. The sixties and the seventies saw considerable development and innovation in academic legal education. The number of law schools increased markedly, as did the number of graduates. Since the financial cuts at the beginning of the eighties, the pace of innovation in academic legal education seems to have decreased.