"Wenn Amerika eins braucht, dann noch mehr Anwälte"

Als Urheber des geflügelten Wortes aus der Überschrift wäre Lionel Hutz sicher ein großer Freund dieser umstrittenen "Neugründung": In Massachusetts, where the concentration of lawyers ranks among the nation’s highest, the stereotype, no matter how simplistic, resonates all the stronger. As the University of Massachusetts resumes plans for the state’s first public law school at its Dartmouth campus - a proposal fiercely opposed by private programs that fear sharpened competition - a secondary debate has also emerged. Would a new school increase the state’s sizable stock of lawyers? Joking aside, many observers said introducing a public option to the crowded law school field would probably draw more young professionals into the popular, if oft-maligned, field. “I think that having another law school inevitably leads to more lawyers,’’ said Elie Mystal, editor of the popular legal blog Above The Law, in which he panned the UMass proposal as a way to get “taxpayers to pay for more legal professionals in a mar…