The Ugly Truth About What's Going Wrong in American Law Schools

With test scores and bar-passage rates falling, academics grope for answers
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The news from law school campuses has gone from bad to worse. Who's suffering? Does it matter?

My colleague Natalie Kitroeff ably chronicles the dismal times in legal education. "Fewer people with high Law School Admission Test scores are applying to and enrolling in law school, and less-qualified students are filling their slots," she reports in her latest dispatch, and she's got the stats to prove it.