This paper provides insights into an initiative that offers graduate and professional students from across the University of Michigan the opportunity to participate in multi-disciplinary, problem-based classes that foster creative thinking, teamwork, and development of transferrable skills. The paper describes how, in order to improve student…

Howard University School of Law had a problem, and school officials knew it. Over a 20-year period, 40 percent of its graduates who took the Maryland bar exam failed it on their first try. During the next 24 months--the time frame required to determine its "eventual pass rate"--almost 90 percent of the students did pass. What they did…

Recent law school graduates face the tightest job market in years. Amid lingering industrywide uncertainties, officials at some law schools are scrambling to ensure that underrepresented minorities get jobs, especially law schools not customarily tapped by the country's largest law firms. In some of the more striking measures, a dean will troop…

Using a conceptual model, this study examines the variables associated with the "U.S. News and World Report" peer assessment ratings of graduate and professional schools in business, education, engineering, law, and medicine. What are the correlates of prestige among the nation's leading graduate and professional schools, and are they consistent…

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a…

This study was directed toward an examination of the legal manpower system and its response to needs in Pennsylvania. Information based on surveys is presented on: (1) lawyer-population ratios by counties, lawyer-area ratios by counties, and lawyer ratios to population and area in the State; (2) legal manpower demand in terms of correlations…

This report outlines the various activities of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and therefore the purpose of the Association. The activities appear to fall into 5 general categories: (1) educational developments, including student components, faculty appointments, academic freedom and tenure, accreditation, admissions to the bar,…

This report presents an overall picture of legal education available in Texas in 1964. Chapter 1 discusses the history of legal education in the State and reviews the procedures and requirements for being admitted to the Texas Bar. Chapter 2 presents brief descriptions of the faculty, students, curriculum, and facilities of Texas' 3 State…

Speech delivered by Erwin N. Griswold, Solicitor General of the United States, at the American Association of Law Schools Convention in New York, December 29, 1972. (Editor)

The authors build a case for a broader-based legal education that would give special emphasis to the humanities and the social sciences as these fields bear on the study of law. Their major recommendation for the future of legal education can be summed up in one word: diversity. The new kind of legal education they propose would orient itself to…

In a study of the organizational socialization of law school interns, the authors observed that some of the students were assimilated quickly and completely into the role of prosecutor, while others were less socialized. The authors believe that the organizational structure and level of control exercised over the interns accounted for these…

Political science has new approaches, methodologies, and substantive knowledge to contribute to legal education, and political science can serve as a model for the use and utility of behavioral methods in addressing many of the same questions and materials discussed in law schools.