Many deans have wondered why the ABA continues to approve new law schools, given the national decline in applications. An essay I wrote for the Toledo Law Review proposes that new law schools are not the problem. In fact, new law schools would drive innovation, if the accreditation process allowed for it. The essay further asserts that established schools will either be new schools in 10 years, or they will not survive. The essay can be found at :
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2244606