Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

In Another View: Lock the Law School Doors Dan Slater argues that law schools are admitting too many students, but praises UM Law Dean White's (relatively unsuccessful) attempt to get incoming students to defer for a year.

This summer, in the staid world of legal education, where curriculum is uniform and scholars are trained in the art of like-mindedness, one dean hatched a contrary plan.

In a memo to incoming students, Patricia D. White, the dean of University of Miami School of Law, surmised: “Perhaps many of you are looking to law school as a safe harbor in which you can wait out the current economic storm.” She then urged them to “think hard” about their plans and offered incentives for those willing to defer for one year.

Apparently, though, the tide would not be stemmed:

32 students took Dean White up on her offer to defer, [so] the school is still left with a first-year population of 527 — ­ 35 percent more than last year’s incoming class.

I hope the legal job market has turned around by '12. I think it will be better than it is now, but the question is, how much?

WSJ Law blog reports that student-loan company Access Group sponsored a contest — a $10,000 scholarship to the law student who produced the best sub-four-minute video explaining the inspiration behind his or her decision to go to law school.

Here's the winner, from Chapman University Law School, Branigan Robertson's “Discovering Inspiration”. It's good.

Runners up: Ana DeFrates, University of Texas Law School; Anna Grace, Northeastern Law (I liked this one a lot); Joseph Duerst, Arizona State; John Grimm, Georgetown; and Ted Cardos, NYU.