The mess in Charleston keeps getting worse, because of the dysfunction of two board members, Robert Carr and George Kosko.
When the law school earned approval from the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education to open in 2003, Carr and Kosko were Federal Magistrate Judges. Despite the prohibitions found in Canon 4A of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Magistrates Carr and Kosko were governing board members of the law school, and spent several hours of the day at the school.
While neither magistrate invested a penny in the law school (Ed Westbrook was the only board member who invested), both magistrates viewed the law school as theirs. They did not understand that the faculty, students, and staff of the law school were primarily responsible for its ultimate success in navigating the ABA approval process.