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Legal Education: The State of the Art

The Center’s inaugural conference convened leading scholars to assess the current state of legal education. Research presented at this conference addressed questions such as: Who seeks admission to law school, and to what extent are law schools attracting the “best and brightest” undergraduates? What do we know about law school debt and the return on investment in legal education? What factors influence law students’ post-graduation employment decisions? What are the latest findings of the LSSSE survey on legal education and the law student experience? What measures have proven effective in improving students’ prospects of succeeding in law school and passing the bar? What are the latest findings from the After the JD research on lawyers’ careers?

Participants

• Richard L. Abel

  Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus
  Distinguished Research Professor
  University of California, Los Angeles School of Law

• Catherine Albiston

  Professor of Law
  Professor of Sociology
  University of California, Berkeley School of Law

• Judith C. Areen

  Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law
  Georgetown University Law Center

• John Bliss

  Resident Fellow
  Center on the Legal Profession
  Harvard Law School

• Scott L. Cummings

  Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics
  Professor of Law
  University of California, Los Angeles School of Law

• Meera E. Deo

  Associate Professor of Law
  Thomas Jefferson School of Law

• Ronit Dinovitzer

  Associate Professor of Sociology
  University of Toronto

• Bryant Garth

  Chancellor's Professor of Law
  University of California, Irvine School of Law

• William D. Henderson

  Professor of Law
  Val Nolan Faculty Fellow
  Indiana University Maurer School of Law

• Michael Hunter Schwartz

  Dean
  Professor of Law
  University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  William H. Bowen School of Law

• Frank McIntyre

  Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics
  Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick

• Elizabeth Mertz

  John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law
  University of Wisconsin Law School

• Tammy Patterson

  CEO & President
  NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education

• Emily Taylor Poppe

  Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
  Cornell University Law School

• Anna Raup-Kounovsky

  Criminology, Law, and Society
  University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology

• Carole Silver

  Professor of Global Law and Practice
  Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

• Ann Southworth

  Professor of Law
  University of California, Irvine School of Law

• Alex Steel

  Professor of Law
  University of New South Wales School of Law

• Aaron Taylor

  Associate Professor of Law
  Saint Louis University School of Law

• Riaz Tejani

  Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
  University of Illinois Springfield

• Judith Welch Wegner

  Burton Craig Professor of Law, Emeritus
  University of North Carolina School of Law