Since my original post, I have refined my key points
that I will discuss. I did this by reevaluating my topic idea and addressing direct
question which I will ask. These questions can be found in my original post
which I modified earlier today. I have browsed through the articles that
Professor Goeller commented on my original post and I have also found a few of
my own.
Eckman, Drew. "Rethinking Lawsuits Against Law
Schools: Graduates Must Overcome Significant Hurdles To Prevail Against Alma
Maters." Journal Of Law & Education 42.3 (2013): 575-583. Education
Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 1 Oct. 2013.
Abstract: The article discusses various lawsuits which
have been filed by law school graduates against law schools as a result of a
weak employment market for inexperienced attorneys in the U.S. as of July 2013.
Student loan debt and the costs associated with attending law school are addressed,
along with class action litigation in the U.S. The National Association for Law
Placement's Executive Director James Leipold is mentioned, as well as U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics and alleged misrepresentations of post-graduate
placement rates by law schools. [ABSTRACT
FROM AUTHOR]
Mattox, Kari Ann1. "Transparency And
Accountability: What If The Federal Gainful Employment-Debt Measures
Regulations Applied To Law Schools?." Educational Considerations 40.3
(2013): 26-29. Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 1 Oct. 2013
Abstract: The
article presents an analysis which compares the guidelines to assess
transparency and accountability for law schools in the U.S. It compares the
guidelines between the American Bar Association (ABA) and the U.S. Department
of Education's Gainful Employment-Debt Measures regulations. It suggests that
the principles of the regulations are relevant for these schools. It also
mentions that ABA's requirement for accreditation will help increase employment
rates in the country. [ABSTRACT
FROM AUTHOR]
Campos, Paul1. "The Crisis Of The American Law
School." University Of Michigan Journal Of Law Reform 46.1 (2012):
177-223. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (H.W. Wilson). Web. 1 Oct. 2013.
Abstract: The
economist Herbert Stein once remarked that if something cannot go on forever,
it will stop. Over the past four decades, the cost of legal education in
America has seemed to belie this aphorism: it has gone up relentlessly. Private
law school tuition increased by a factor of four in real, inflation-adjusted
terms between 1971 and 2011, while resident tuition at public law schools has
nearly quadrupled in real terms over just the past two decades. Meanwhile, for
more than thirty years, the percentage of the American economy devoted to legal
services has been shrinking. In 1978 the legal sector accounted for 2.01
percent of the nation's GDP: by 2009 that figure had shrunk to 1.37 percent--a
32 percent decrease. These two trends are not mutually sustainable, If the cost
of becoming a laivyer continues to rise while the economic advantage conferred
by a law degree continues to fall, then eventually both the market for new
lawyers and for admission to law school will crash. In the early years of the
21st century, this abstract theoretical observation has begun to be confirmed
by concrete events. The ongoing contraction in the employment market for new
lawyers has combined with the continuing increase in the cost of legal
education to produce what has begun to be recognized as a genuine crisis for
both law schools and the legal profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
In just skimming through the main points of these
articles I have found exactly what I was hoping to find. Amongst these three
alone, I have found a plethora of information pertaining to, increasing costs,
student loan debt, the shrinking job market, institution accountability, as
well as numerous subtopics. My research has eased my concern about a void in up
to date information and has actually made me quite confident that I will have
an ample supply of information to write a comprehensive paper on this topic!
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