American Lawyer:  A Tale of Two (California) Law Schools, by Matt Leichter:

Two of the newest law schools to join the ABA's fold are located in
California: the University of La Verne, a private law school in Ontario
(a city in California's "Inland Empire"), and the University of
California at Irvine, a public law school. Though fewer than fifty miles
apart, their ambitions couldn't diverge more: La Verne merely aspires
to serve its nearby residents while UC-Irvine
is boldly trying to be "the ideal law school for the 21st century,"
according to its dean and progenitor, Erwin Chemerinsky. Although
the schools justify their goals in very different terms, neither is
persuasive and both only add to the number of unemployed law school
graduates. …

There are two lessons the University of La Verne and UC-Irvine
provide us. The first is that there is no "responsible" way to create a
law school that doesn't involve creating unemployed graduates. Either
the law school will take in students it knows will either not find law
jobs or won't even pass a bar exam (La Verne), or it will force another
law school somewhere else to do the same (UC-Irvine).

The second
and more significant lesson, which is more closely associated with
UC-Irvine than La Verne: We are slowly approaching the endgame for
public law schools. Once state governments no longer consider training
lawyers a public good, by cutting subsidies, public law schools mutate
into vestigial state structures whose agendas are orthogonal to any
public purpose, unless using their students' tuition for other
university programs counts. They should either be privatized or closed.