Legal Education: The State of the Art
Inaugural Conference of the Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
June 2, 2017
UC Irvine School of Law
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, EmeritusDistinguished Research Professor
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
Catherine Albiston
Professor of LawProfessor of Sociology
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Judith C. Areen
Paul Regis Dean Professor of LawGeorgetown University Law Center
Scott L. Cummings
Robert Henigson Professor of Legal EthicsProfessor of Law
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
Meera E. Deo
Associate Professor of LawThomas Jefferson School of Law
Ronit Dinovitzer
Associate Professor of SociologyUniversity of Toronto
Bryant Garth
Chancellor's Professor of LawUniversity of California, Irvine School of Law
William D. Henderson
Professor of LawVal Nolan Faculty Fellow
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Michael Hunter Schwartz
DeanProfessor of Law
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
William H. Bowen School of Law
Frank McIntyre
Assistant Professor of Finance and EconomicsRutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick
Elizabeth Mertz
John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of LawUniversity of Wisconsin Law School
Tammy Patterson
CEO & PresidentNALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education
Emily Taylor Poppe
Visiting Assistant Professor of LawCornell University Law School
Anna Raup-Kounovsky
Criminology, Law, and SocietyUniversity of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology
Carole Silver
Professor of Global Law and PracticeNorthwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Ann Southworth
Professor of LawUniversity of California, Irvine School of Law
Alex Steel
Professor of LawUniversity of New South Wales School of Law
Aaron Taylor
Associate Professor of LawSaint Louis University School of Law
Riaz Tejani
Assistant Professor of Legal StudiesUniversity of Illinois Springfield
Judith Welch Wegner
Burton Craig Professor of Law, EmeritusUniversity of North Carolina School of Law