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Fixing law schools : from collapse to the Trump bump and beyond / Benjamin H. Barton.
LIBRA KF272 .B37 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barton, Benjamin H., 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law schools--United States--History--21st century.
- Law schools.
- Law schools--United States--Finance.
- Law--Study and teaching--United States.
- Law.
- Law--Study and teaching.
- Finance.
- History.
- United States.
- Law--Vocational guidance--United States.
- Law--Vocational guidance.
- Law schools--Finance.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- v, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Fixing Law Schools" is an exploration of challenges that US law schools and law students are currently facing"--Publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The lost decade
- The original sin : law schools teach law but not lawyering
- The new problem : the job market for law grads, 1990s to the present
- Future shock : will computers replace lawyers?
- Boom to bust for law schools
- Why haven't more law schools closed? : Part 1 : market-based closures
- Why haven't more law schools closed? : Part 2 : ABA accreditation
- Why haven't more law schools closed? : Part 3 : The DOE
- The middle class sweats it out
- The good news and bad news from the T14(ish)
- Should I/my child, my buddy, anyone go to law school?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479866557
- 1479866555
- OCLC:
- 1088413706
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