Law Mart: Justice, Access, and For-Profit Law Schools

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By Riaz Tejani *11

Published Feb. 9, 2017

  American law schools are in trouble — enrollment is down, student debt is up, and the job pool is shrinking. For-profit law schools, established for the first time in the early 2000s, relaxed admission, increased diversity, changed established curriculum — and success rates plummeted. In Law Mart (Stanford University Press), Riaz Tejani *11 examines what happens when economic theories shape law school transactions and governance.

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