Failing Law Schools

Tamanaha, Brian Ζ.

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“…When considering the cost side of the calculation, one thing stands out; a law degree is not a sure financial bet. According to Tamanaha (2012), "the cost of a legal education today is substantially out of proportion to the economic opportunities obtained by the majority of graduates" (x). Indeed, in recent decades, law school tuition has risen significantly.…”

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An Honest Conversation: An In-Class Tool to Help Pre-Law Students Determine Their Compatibility with Law School and a Legal Career

Gollob

2018

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At a time when a single semester of law school can be a significant financial investment, the decision to attend law school should not be made casually. Instead, decisions should be influenced by data, reflection, and an understanding of real-world outcomes. In this article, I present The Legal Career Compatibility Project; a tool to help students make an informed decision about pursuing a career in law. Using Bolles (2003), Phases 1 and 2 help prospective law students determine whether they should pursue a legal career. Phase 3 helps students determine where and how to apply to law school. Considering that the odds of gaining admission to law school are high, conversations about whether one should attend law school are equally, if not more, important than conversations about how to gain admission. The purpose of the project is to influence how decisions to attend law school are made, not to encourage or discourage students from a career in law.

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An Honest Conversation: An In-Class Tool to Help Pre-Law Students Determine Their Compatibility with Law School and a Legal Career

Gollob

2018

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“…[19] But he is silent on how many law students live beyond their means while in law school, failing to economize as they might. Any frank appraisal of professional school costs would have to include accurate and useful information on this matter.…”

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“…He sneered: "Olivas's suggestion that we perform the important task of modeling 'selflessness' for law students is specious at a time when legal educators are paid handsomely for what we do." [3] While this Radical Teacher forum is not a venue for airing grievances (I was also accused of having a "ratty assed beard" to which, I suppose, I must plead guilty), it must be noted that critics from the right and the academic left have zeroed in on a handful of issues that have to do with pedagogy and the curricular delivery of legal education, which I acknowledge here so that outsiders will be aware that there are deep dissatisfactions in the legal academy, a number of which are generic and unlikely to be resolved in part because they are, well, unresolvable or due to economic restructuring beyond the control of law faculties.…”

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A Personal Reflection on Law Teaching, or How I Became an Establishment Insider on the Outside

Olivas

2014

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“…Law school enrollment numbers continue to decline and the cost of attendance remains high (Olson and Segal 2014 ). The price tag for a legal education is particularly problematic, given the challenges of gaining employment after graduation (Tamanaha 2012 ). Some law schools, confronted with smaller applicant pools, have even begun to admit more and potentially less qualifi ed students (Rivard 2015 ).…”

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Pre-Law Advising and the Political Science Major: Evidence from Pre-Law Advisors

Knotts

Wofford

2016

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Political science is one of the most popular majors for law school applicants, and studies show that political science majors have high rates of law school admission. In addition, many political science departments have a pre-law advisor. However, little is known about the status of pre-law advising on college campuses or the views of pre-law advisors on political science. This article presents the results of a February 2015 survey of 313 college pre-law advisors from across the United States. The authors discovered that the majority of pre-law advisors hold faculty appointments and serve as pre-law advisors without additional compensation or course releases. Pre-law advisors also rate political science as the second-best major, among 14 popular majors, for preparing students for both admission to and academic success in law school. These fi ndings should be of interest to political scientists as well as other faculty and administrators who are concerned with pre-law advising.

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Failing Law Schools

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An Honest Conversation: An In-Class Tool to Help Pre-Law Students Determine Their Compatibility with Law School and a Legal Career

An Honest Conversation: An In-Class Tool to Help Pre-Law Students Determine Their Compatibility with Law School and a Legal Career

A Personal Reflection on Law Teaching, or How I Became an Establishment Insider on the Outside

Pre-Law Advising and the Political Science Major: Evidence from Pre-Law Advisors

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