[leonth]

First of all, determine what value you bring with the certificates to various parties. In certified fields such as law, accounting, medicine, service providers benefit from high barrier of entry to market and high quality of the profession, whereas customers benefit from consistent quality and check & balances by law (via revocation of licenses if found to do malpractice). Governments benefit from increased surveillance and ability to regulate practices.

In software development, these and other benefits are not as critical or very hard to achieve even with strong enforcement.

[walshemj]

In that case why is Jeff Sessions still a lawyer? any reasonable system would have debared him by now.

[vostok]

It is my understanding that the Alabama bar is not very quick to disbar attorneys. It is also my understanding that no court has ruled that Sessions perjured himself.

[walshemj]

Being disbarred by your peers from being a judge for racism should have been the end of Mr Sessions legal career - bringing the profession in to disrepute

[leonth]

I have no idea who Jeff Sessions is, but I am sure that the rule tries to make sure that these kind of situations are the exception.

[nl]

Jeff Sessions is the current Attorney General of the United States of America.

It was a fairly controversial appointment.

I'm not entirely sure what specifically the poster thought he should have been disbarred for, but a number of his views have made it easy to argue about the quality of service he has given.