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Monday, July 06, 2009
Law - "Are Law Schools Relevant to the Future of Law?"
Here is a post by William D. Henderson, Associate Professor of Law at IU Mauer School of Law, on the blog Empirical Legal Studies. A sample:
Frankly, amidst the meltdown of the entry-level lawyer job market, I am surprised by the lack of significant interest or attention by legal academics, at least as judged by blogosphere traffic. It is all-too-easy to assume that the market will rebound next year, or 2011 at the latest. To this I might ask, "What is the basis for the optimism?" The salad days of 2004 to 2008 were driven by a Wall Street juggernaut that destroyed the U.S. investment banking industry, which was the historical client basis for the industry's most prestigious law firms. And here is a more pointed follow-up question, "How much does the legal economy need to recover so that our students can to support their debt load?" See, e.g., Jonathan Glater, Finding Debt a Bigger Hurdle than the Bar Exam, NY Times, July 1, 2009. Obviously, the answer to this question requires some careful study and some math. Vague appeals to the business cycle just won't cut it.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 6, 2009 09:21 AM
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