Fixing Law Schools: From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond

Barton, Benjamin H.

ISBN 10: 1479866555 / ISBN 13: 9781479866557

Published by NYU Press, 2019

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: Benjamin Barton is Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. He is author of several books, including The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice (Encounter Books, 2022); Fixing Law Schools: From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond (NYU Press, 2019); and Rebooting Justice; More Technology, Fewer Lawyers, and the Future Of Law (Encounter Books, 2017).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fixing Law Schools: From Collapse to the ...
Publisher: NYU Press
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good