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The Effects Of Educational Debts On Career Choices Of Graduates Of The University Of Michigan Law School, David L. Chambers
The Effects Of Educational Debts On Career Choices Of Graduates Of The University Of Michigan Law School, David L. Chambers
Bibliography of Research Using UMLS Alumni Survey Data
In 1966, the University of Michigan Law School began an annual survey of selected classes of its graduates. Beginning in the early 1980s, annual surveys of those five and fifteen years after law school included questions about educational debts incurred during college and law school as well as about career plans at the beginning and end of law school and actual job held in the years since law school. This paper, written in 2009, examines the possible effects of debts on career decisions and job choices made before, during and after law school by the graduating classes of 1976 through …
Aspire: You Can Go Anywhere, University Of Michigan Law School
Aspire: You Can Go Anywhere, University Of Michigan Law School
Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications
Pamphlet with information about the University of Michigan Law School alumni careers.
The Crisis In Legal Education: Dabbling In Disaster Planning, Kyle P. Mcentee, Patrick J. Lynch, Derek M. Tokaz
The Crisis In Legal Education: Dabbling In Disaster Planning, Kyle P. Mcentee, Patrick J. Lynch, Derek M. Tokaz
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The legal education crisis has already struck for many recent law school graduates, signaling potential disaster for law schools already struggling with their own economic challenges. Law schools have high fixed costs caused by competition between schools, the unchecked expansion of federal loan programs, a widely exploited information asymmetry about graduate employment outcomes, and a lack of financial discipline masquerading as innovation. As a result, tuition is up, jobs are down, and skepticism of the value of a J.D. has never been higher. If these trends do not reverse course, droves of students will continue to graduate with debt that …
The Crisis Of The American Law School, Paul Campos
The Crisis Of The American Law School, Paul Campos
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The economist Herbert Stein once remarked that if something cannot go on forever, it will stop. Over the past four decades, the cost of legal education in America has seemed to belie this aphorism: it has gone up relentlessly. Private law school tuition increased by a factor of four in real, inflation-adjusted terms between 1971 and 2011, while resident tuition at public law schools has nearly quadrupled in real terms over just the past two decades. Meanwhile, for more than thirty years, the percentage of the American economy devoted to legal services has been shrinking. In 1978 the legal sector …
Why Write?, Erwin Chemerinsky
Why Write?, Erwin Chemerinsky
Michigan Law Review
This wonderful collection of reviews of leading recent books about law provides the occasion to ask a basic question: why should law professors write? There are many things that law professors could do with the time they spend writing books and law review articles. More time and attention could be paid to students and to instructional materials. More professors could do pro bono legal work of all sorts. In fact, if law professors wrote much less, teaching loads could increase, faculties could decrease in size, and tuition could decrease substantially. The answer to the question "why write" is neither intuitive …
The Real Impact Of Eliminating Affirmative Action In American Law Schools: An Empirical Critique Of Richard Sander's Study, David L. Chambers, Timothy T. Clydesdale, William C. Kidder, Richard O. Lempert
The Real Impact Of Eliminating Affirmative Action In American Law Schools: An Empirical Critique Of Richard Sander's Study, David L. Chambers, Timothy T. Clydesdale, William C. Kidder, Richard O. Lempert
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In 1970, there were about 4000 African American lawyers in the United States. Today there are more than 40,000. The great majority of the 40,000 have attended schools that were once nearly all-white, and most were the beneficiaries of affirmative action in their admission to law school. American law schools and the American bar can justly take pride in the achievements of affirmative action: the training of tens of thousands of African American (as well as Latino, Asian American, and Native American) practitioners, community leaders, judges, and law professors; the integration of the American bar; the services that minority attorneys …
Myths And Facts About Affirmative Action, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
Myths And Facts About Affirmative Action, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
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The case against affirmative action in admissions to institutions of higher education is based on the moral attractiveness of colorblind decision making and buttressed by a sense that such programs are not just unfair but pointless. Their intended beneficiaries, the argument goes, are put in situations in which they are unable to compete with whites and not only perform poorly but are destructively demoralized in the process. Common to arguments against affirmative action in admissions is a belief that minorities advantaged by it displace whites who are more deserving of admission because they have accomplished more, can better benefit from …
Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: Answers To Methodological Queries, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: Answers To Methodological Queries, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
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Before making a few remarks in response to those who commented on our article (Lempert, Chambers, and Adams 2000), we would like to express our gratitude to the editors of Law and Social Inquiry for securing these commentaries and to the people who wrote them. The comments both highlight the potential uses to which our research and similar studies may be put and give us the opportunity to address methodological concerns and questions that other readers of our article may share with those who commented on it. The responses to our work are of two types. Professors Nelson, Payne, and …
Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: The River Runs Through Law School, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: The River Runs Through Law School, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
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This paper reports the results of a 1997-98 survey designed to explore the careers of the University of Michigan Law School's minority graduates from the classes of 1970 through 1996, and of a random sample of Michigan Law School's white alumni who graduated during the same years. It is to date the most detailed quantitative exploration of how minority students fare after they graduate from law school and enter law practice or related careers. The results reveal that almost all of Michigan Law School's minority graduates pass a bar exam and go on to have careers that appear successful by …
Doing Well And Doing Good: The Careers Of Minority And White Graduates Of The University Of Michigan Law School, David L. Chambers, Richard O. Lempert, Terry K. Adams
Doing Well And Doing Good: The Careers Of Minority And White Graduates Of The University Of Michigan Law School, David L. Chambers, Richard O. Lempert, Terry K. Adams
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Of the more than 1,000 law students attending the University of Michigan Law School in the spring of 1965, only one was African American. The Law School faculty, in response, decided to develop a program to attract more African American students. One element of this program was the authorization of a deliberately race-conscious admissiosn process. By the mid-1970s, at least 25 African American students were represented in each graduating class. By the late 1970s, Latino and Native American students were included in the program as well. Over the nearly three decades between 1970 and 1998, the admissions efforts and goals …
Class Of 1995 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1995 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.
Class Of 1995 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1995 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.
Class Of 1994 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1994 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.
Class Of 1994 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1994 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.
Class Of 1993 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1993 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.
Class Of 1993 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1993 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.
Class Of 1992 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1992 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.
Class Of 1992 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1992 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.
Debts, Job Choices, And Financial Burden: Educational Debts At Nine American Law Schools, David L. Chambers
Debts, Job Choices, And Financial Burden: Educational Debts At Nine American Law Schools, David L. Chambers
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American law students are borrowing large sums of money. For graduates at many schools, cumulative debts of $35,000 from college and law school have become the norm and debts of $40,000, $50,000 and even more are common. The sums students are borrowing are much larger today than they were ten years ago, even after adjusting for increases in the cost of living. They have risen at a vastly faster pace than the initial salaries at small law firms and government agencies. They have even risen at a faster pace than the initial salaries in many large firms. The new pattern …
Class Of 1991 Five Year Report Letter To Faculty, David L. Chambers
Class Of 1991 Five Year Report Letter To Faculty, David L. Chambers
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This letter was sent to faculty with the report.
Class Of 1991 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1991 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.
Class Of 1991 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1991 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.
Class Of 1990 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1990 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.
Class Of 1990 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1990 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.
Class Of 1989 Five Year Report Dean's Letter, Jeffrey S. Lehman
Class Of 1989 Five Year Report Dean's Letter, Jeffrey S. Lehman
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This letter was sent to alumni with the report.
Class Of 1989 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1989 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.
Class Of 1989 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1989 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.
Class Of 1988 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1988 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.
Class Of 1988 Five Year Report Dean's Letter, Jeffrey S. Lehman
Class Of 1988 Five Year Report Dean's Letter, Jeffrey S. Lehman
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This letter was sent to alumni with the report.
Class Of 1988 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1988 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.