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Yet Another Law School Merger? UC San Diego, Meet Cal Western

By Dan Filler, Laura Appleman et al.

<p>Thanks to <a href="http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2010/01/university-of-california.html">Paul Caron</a>,  we learn that the <a href="http://web.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/28/ucsd-looking-law-school/">San Diego Union is reporting</a> that UC San Diego and California Western Law School have entered into preliminary negotiations to merge - or perhaps, simply, to <em>affiliate</em>.  Apparently, there is talk of entering into a Michigan State / Detroit College of Law agreement which allows for a single name, but separate corporate entities.   This presumably would allow UCSD to have a law school at little or no cost.  In exchange, Cal Western gets the reputational bump that comes with being renamed after a great state university.   I am certain that there will be lots of questions - particularly given the recent arrival of Irvine Law.  And this story comes on the heels of the (admittedly very different) UMass - SNESL merger controversy.  We'll be watching this  closely.   </p><p>On a related note,  until this article I'd thought that Detroit College of Law <em>had</em> merged into MSU.  But for better or worse, that's not the case...as the <a href="http://www.law.msu.edu/disclaimer.html">disclaimer </a>at the bottom of each page of the MSU Law website explains.</p><p></p><p></p>

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).