Bloomberg Law
Jan. 11, 2016, 6:13 PM UTC

Former Brandeis President: Law Students Are Right to Worry

Blake Edwards

Everyone agrees the traditional law school model is under pressure: student debt has skyrocketed, and plummeting application numbers have law school administrators — at lower ranked schools, especially — wondering how to fill up class rolls without compromising student quality.

But not everyone agrees what to do about it. That was evident on Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, where a handful of former higher education administrators and law professors talked about the changing market for legal education.

At a panel titled “Preparing Professionals: Higher Education’s Responses to the Demands of a Global Marketplace,” panelists, most ...

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