A Steep Slide in Law School Enrollment Accelerates – NYTimes.com. “I pointed out the factor with this comment. Why isn’t anyone addressing the “elephant in the room”? Surely, its recognition by potential law students and their parents has an effect on attendance. And what is the elephant? Scott Turow has called legal education an “unscrupulous […]
Law Schools Like These Seem to Serve Everyone But Their Students – Who Probably, In Actuality, Serve the School
November 5, 2014 by
Creditors Keep Troubled Law Schools on Life Support – NYTimes.com. I wrote two comments. “Prof. Solomon’s analysis is an eye-opener. It tells us that the institutional setting (by that I mean regulations, norms, social expectations, etc…), within which colleges of all types operate, allows them to act almost solely in their selfish interest with few […]
What Are We Teaching in Law School? That You Can’t Fool All the People But You Can Fool the Ones Without Resources?
April 16, 2014 by
In the conclusion of PLOS ONE: Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals there is a reference to, In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That – NYTimes.com. That article is about law schools that change their grading to help their graduates get better jobs. For example, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, retroactively […]
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