SLS Moving to Quarters?

Stanford Law School may be moving to the quarter system. Why any law school would deliberately put its students at such a disadvantage is beyond me. Surely it's not impossible for students at the law school to take classes on the quarter system at other schools within the university at present. And why not alternate years for a joint degree program, rather than try to take a mixture of law and other courses? Perhaps my SLS connection will weigh in on this debate.