Legal Asylum: A Comedy

In this rollicking satire of higher education, Dean Elspeth Flowers will let nothing⎯nothing⎯stand in the way of her plans to catapult her backwater state law school into the U.S. News & World Report Top 5. But tensions between the school's warring factions⎯the Quants, Poets, and Bog Dwellers⎯put these plans in peril. So, too, do the errant pursuits of her faculty and the maneuverings of a mail room clerk with plans of his own to radically transform the school. The arrival of an American Bar Association committee to conduct the law school's required seven-year accreditation review threatens to expose the school's deepest secrets and forces the dean to confront her own darkest demons. A romp through the legal academy, Legal Asylum asks: Can a school make it into the exalted realm of the U.S. News Top 5 and lose its accreditation, all in the same year?