I just read an interesting essay on the debate about creating “practice-ready” graduates: Robert J. Condlin, “Practice Ready Graduates”: A Millennialist Fantasy, 31 TOURO L. REV. 75 (2014), available on SSRN here.

Condlin rejects the notion of making law school graduates practice-ready. He argues that the practice-ready movement is a mistaken response to the downturn in the market for lawyers and that law schools cannot and should not make law students practice-ready. Regardless of your position on this issue, Condlin’s article is definitely worth reading.