A few other arguments come to mind as I read the contributions to the
discussion so far.  I summarize the previous messages and their
arguments against having law as a fundamental part of the business
curriculum as follows:

1.  Adjuncts are cheaper and you can get them by the dozen to teach
law.  (I add that, unlike other fields, our adjuncts are terminally
qualified, which makes deans smile.  I suspect our colleagues think that

anyone can teach law and that we find these folks at the bus station,
but no one has ever said that to my face).

2.  There is no obvious career path for someone coming out of business
school with a law major.

3.  PhDs look down their noses at "mere" JDs.

I hope I haven't left anyone out.  To the above I would add the thought
that law, as seen by our colleagues, is actually antithetical to
business.  It is, after all, the law that imposes restrictions on
business and how it operates.  We are seen as the folks who say no all
the time.  We mess up our finance colleagues' notion of perfect markets;

we throw roadblocks in front of our manufacturing and marketing
colleagues. And we can make grown accounting professors cry.  I suspect
they think that if we really believed in business, we would have chosen
a different discipline.  Last, we are, afterall, lawyers.  Most of us
don't call ourselves that, but our colleagues sure do.  Quite apart from

the bad feelings our colleagues have for the profession in general, they

sure as heck don't want us out there producing baby lawyers through our
classes.

There's my two cents.  It's quitting time.  Time to go home, everyone.