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Fixing Law Schools - From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Fixing Law Schools - From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond (Hardcover)
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An urgent plea for much needed reforms to legal education The
period from 2008 to 2018 was a lost decade for American law
schools. Employment results were terrible. Applications and
enrollment cratered. Revenue dropped precipitously and several law
schools closed. Almost all law schools shrank in terms of students,
faculty, and staff. A handful of schools even closed. Despite these
dismal results, law school tuition outran inflation and student
indebtedness exploded, creating a truly toxic brew of higher costs
for worse results. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the
subsequent role of hero-lawyers in the "resistance" has made law
school relevant again and applications have increased. However,
despite the strong early returns, we still have no idea whether law
schools are out of the woods or not. If the Trump Bump is temporary
or does not result in steady enrollment increases, more schools
will close. But if it does last, we face another danger. We tend to
hope that crises bring about a process of creative destruction,
where a downturn causes some businesses to fail and other
businesses to adapt. And some of the reforms needed at law schools
are obvious: tuition fees need to come down, teaching practices
need to change, there should be greater regulations on law schools
that fail to deliver on employment and bar passage. Ironically, the
opposite has happened for law schools: they suffered a harrowing,
near-death experience and the survivors look like they're going to
exhale gratefully and then go back to doing exactly what led them
into the crisis in the first place. The urgency of this book is to
convince law school stakeholders (faculty, students, applicants,
graduates, and regulators) not to just return to business as usual
if the Trump Bump proves to be permanent. We have come too far,
through too much, to just shrug our shoulders and move on.
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