[by Rick Bales] Law schools have responded to the changing marketplace for legal education in a wide variety of ways designed to add revenue streams or improve the quality of education. Here’s a list of some of those innovations;
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What Would an Efficient Market for Law Schools Look Like?
[by Rick Bales] As the U.S.’s 200-odd ABA-accredited law schools endure a sixth year of admissions and enrollment pain, their response to the market downturn has not been what one would expect in an efficient market. In an efficient…
Faculty Bloodletting
[by Rick Bales] I’ve heard from faculty members at two law schools just this week who report (not for attribution) that their law schools either are laying off a substantial number of faculty (the faculty member’s word was “bloodletting”)…
[Not] Supporting Arizona
[by Rick Bales]As the headline in the post immediately below points out, 3/4 of U.S. law deans supported University of Arizona Law’s bid to use the GRE as an alternative to the LSAT. That does not imply support for…
3/4 of Law Deans Sign Letter to LSAC Supporting U of Arizona
By David Yellen
National Law Journal story here. It is not very common for that many deans to agree on pretty much anything.
Should LSAC and the ABA Demand Fealty to the LSAT (or any other test)?
By David Yellen
As reported by the National Law Journal, the Law School Admissions Council is contemplating expelling the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law from LSAC membership. This is in response to Arizona's decision to offer applicants the option of…
Disrupting Legal Education
[by Rick Bales]Michele Pistone and Michael Horn have just posted, on the publications page of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, their white paper Disrupting Law School: How Disruptive Innovation Will Revolutionize the Legal World.The take-away:…
On the Cost of Legal Education
[by Rick Bales]Why is the cost of attending law school high relative to lawyer starting salaries, and rising relative to inflation? Here are three reasons that the scambloggers never seem to mention.The first is Baumol’s Cost Disease. The…
Yellen Leaves Loyola-Chicago for Presidency of Marist College
[by Rick Bales]Congratulations to dean extraordinaire (and Law Deans blogger) David Yellen on his appointment, announced today, as President of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Here’s the Marist press release. Marist is a prestigious college on the…
Growing the Pie II: Making a Case for the GRE
[by Rick Bales]Christine Hurt (BYU) makes a a compelling case at Conglomerate Blog for allowing law schools to use the GRE as a substitute for the LSAT. Here’s a quick summary:[A] lot of stellar undergraduates are choosing not…