Shrinking Law Schools

Law school applications are down, but how are the rest of the numbers looking for the class of 2016 -- class sizes, LSATs and GPAs, etc.?

Which law school has managed to avoid junior-faculty layoffs, and what lessons might it have to offer to other law schools that are attempting to rightsize themselves?

How do you define entering class size, exactly?

Will public law schools ever get back to their mission?

One top law school is bucking the trend and increasing enrollment -- but at what cost?

Which law school could it be?

Instead of increasing value, one law school responds to the challenging economy by cutting services...

How should a law school go about shrinking itself? All options should be placed on the table.

The stats show that prospective law students are starting to get it.

Declining enrollment numbers could be evidence that prospective law students are starting to get it...

Hastings Law Dean Frank Wu announced that his school would be voluntarily reducing its enrollment by 20% over the next three years, and the press has taken notice....

Critics of the legal-education industrial complex would probably like to see some radical changes in the U.S. law school system. They’d probably want a few dozen law schools to shut down entirely, to reduce the glut of lawyers in this country. Barring that, they might want to see law schools reduce tuition dramatically — not […]