Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Charles Rice has his say
In another chapter of the Ave Maria School of Law saga, Fumare is reporting that Professor Charles Rice has sent a letter to Tom Monaghan (chair of the Board of Govenors) and Dean Bernard Dobranski noting the votes of no confidence taken by the faculty, students, and alumni, and proposing an alternate solution to the closing of the current law school in Ann Arbor and opening of a new law school in Florida with ties to Ave Maria Town and Ave Maria University.
The occasion for this letter is the unprecedented concurrence of formal declarations by the AMSL faculty, the AMSL alumni board and the signers of the AMSL student petition, all expressing what amounts to a terminal lack of confidence in Bernie’s leadership of AMSL. That lack of confidence implicitly applies also to Tom because of the reality, as well as the perception, that, contrary to ABA standards, AMSL is, in effect though not by design, governed as a sole proprietorship with Bernie as the resident agent.
The occasion for this letter is the unprecedented concurrence of formal declarations by the AMSL faculty, the AMSL alumni board and the signers of the AMSL student petition, all expressing what amounts to a terminal lack of confidence in Bernie’s leadership of AMSL. That lack of confidence implicitly applies also to Tom because of the reality, as well as the perception, that, contrary to ABA standards, AMSL is, in effect though not by design, governed as a sole proprietorship with Bernie as the resident agent.
