UC Hastings is ranked #54 in US News. That’s not terrible, but it’s not great. I find it tacky of the dean to rant and blame others for his school’s graduates’ poor bar passage results–as if the school and the graduates themselves had nothing to do with it.
It should be made HARDER to pass the bar, which would result in fewer people going to law school and more law school closures. The legal education market has not adapted fast enough to the new reality: that there are far too many underqualified lawyers, and the market forcing closures of weak law schools would help this adaptation occur.