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17 Jun 2020 Conversations with Tyler Rachel Harmon on Policing
“Some law schools are effectively diploma mills that produce lawyers who don’t have a good shot of getting a JD-required or JD-valued job, which means they can’t pay off the loans that they take out to go to law school.”
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- Rachel Harmon
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- evaluation
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- 17 Jun 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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- Rachel Harmon on Policing
Transcript context
…What’s the economic future of law schools? How many will survive? Actually, I think it could be far fewer, and that wouldn’t be a bad thing. I think we could reduce the number of law schools. Some law schools are effectively diploma mills that produce lawyers who don’t have a good shot of getting a JD-required or JD-valued job, which means they can’t pay off the loans that they take out to go to law school. So I wouldn’t mind seeing some law schools depart from the system. UVA, as you know, is a top-rated law school. But say you go to a law school ranked between 35 and 40, which can still have a lot of good elements, produce a lot of good research, have some great professors. You’re asking students to pay a lot of money. Probably they’re not getting aid. Does it make sense, in economic terms, for that institution to still exist 10 years from now?…
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