Law School Professors Protest! . . . But it's just some union thing

The annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools is facing protests. Is it from disgruntled students facing a labor market where only 66% of them have jobs requiring their education? Is it from people with 150k in debt and a 40k job? Is it from excommunicated BigLaw associates who just got spit out of the system?

No - it's from law professors themselves. Is it because of the fundamental injustices that screw over 15-20,000 students every year by leaving them unemployed and deeply in debt? Is it from their educational institutions charging exorbitant amounts of tuition?

No and no. It's because of a labor dispute at one hotel, and it's not the first time our legal educators have gotten political.

...In letters to the AALS, the group said that it opposes the selection of the hotel because of an ongoing dispute between its management and a union representing unskilled and lightly skilled hotel workers.

This year's controversy mirrors problems that the AALS has faced in the past over its site choice for the annual meeting, attended by hundreds of law professors from across the country. In 2008, the AALS was forced to choose an alternate site in San Diego after legal educators balked at the selection of the Manchester Grand Hyatt. AALS members said they would not attend the meeting at that location because the hotel owner had given money supporting California's Marriage Protection Act.

If you all want to get political, how about not messing around with these small potatoes and working on the problems that are leaving two generations of young lawyers depressed and indebted while dragging the prestige and quality of the profession down with them.