When I started law school in 1970 Boston University (which I turned down for Rutgers) cost $2,500/year. My first law job (as a business rep doing arbitration at Actors Equity) paid $13,500 - almost twice the cost of a private law school. Today law school costs nearly $150,000 and the average salary is $65,000 +/-. - GWC
Balkinization: by Brian Tamanaha
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Balkinization: by Brian Tamanaha
"Some of the recent criticism of law schools, including the article in the Times, has had anti-intellectual overtones. That is unfortunate. But it is not anti-intellectual to criticize legal education for being too costly for 45,000 law students (annually) nationwide because ABA/AALS accreditation standards impose the same "research university" model on all law schools. (As the author of six books in legal theory/law and society, it goes without saying that I value intellectual pursuits.)
Legal academics have responded to recent criticisms defensively or apologetically or defiantly. That is all beside the point. We should instead acknowledge that there is a serious problem with the economic structure of legal education and look for ways to solve it."
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