A few days ago, I had a post on the problem of inertia in law schools, and how inertia affects law school reform. Here is a new article on the same subject:
Self-Interest and Sinecure: Why Law School can’t be “Fixed” from within by David Barnhizer.
Abstract
The issue of how best to do a legal education is being approached as if it were an intellectual and pedagogical question. Of course in a conceptual sense it is. But from a political and human perspective (law faculty, deans and lawyers)...
National Jurist: More Jobs Than Grads for Class of 2016:
Is it a good time to apply to law school or not?
With law school enrollment dropping, some say it is only a matter of time before the number of legal jobs exceeds the number of graduates. ...
[D]ifferent law professors can't agree on the date when supply will drop below demand. Paul Young, a law professor at Appalchian ... predicts that full-time legal jobs will exceed the number of law school graduates in 2017. But Deborah Jones...
