TY  - DATA
AU  - Barton,Benjamin H.
TI  - Fixing Law Schools: From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond 
SN  - 9781479895090
AV  - KF272 .B378 2019
U1  - 340.071173 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Law schools
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Law
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Vocational guidance
KW  - LAW / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ABA
KW  - American Bar Association
KW  - Charlotte School of Law
KW  - DOE
KW  - Department of Education
KW  - Harvard Law School
KW  - Trump Bump
KW  - University of Cincinnati
KW  - Washington and Lee University
KW  - Whittier Law School
KW  - accreditation
KW  - antitrust
KW  - apprenticeship
KW  - disaccreditation
KW  - employment
KW  - federal student loan
KW  - lawyering
KW  - legal services
KW  - lost decade
KW  - output regulation
KW  - proprietary
KW  - regulating
KW  - student debt
KW  - tuition hikes
KW  - tuition
KW  - underemployment
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479895090.001.0001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479895090
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