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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Benjamin H. BartonPublisher: New York University Press Imprint: New York University Press Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9781479866557ISBN 10: 1479866555 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 17 December 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsA swashbuckling and informative critique of legal education... Indispensable for law school personnel and for students contemplating attending law school * Choice * Barton provides an excellent exploration, in a very readable style, of what American law schools have experienced since the 2007 recession. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in legal education. * Canadian Law Library Review * Fixing Law Schools is essential reading for anyone who cares about legal education or is thinking of getting one. With enormous insight, wit, and eloquence, Ben Barton describes the challenges facing law schools and their students, and the profession's inadequate responses. At a time when Americans increasingly recognize the importance of the rule of law and reforms to the justice system, this book provides a blueprint for where to start. -- Deborah Rhode, Director, Center on the Legal Profession and E. W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford University Nobody knows more about the state of legal education than Ben Barton, and in this tour-de-force he addresses everything from the past, to the present, to whether enrolling in law school is a good investment for the future. Highly recommended! -- Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law A swashbuckling and informative critique of legal education... Indispensable for law school personnel and for students contemplating attending law school --Choice Nobody knows more about the state of legal education than Ben Barton, and in this tour-de-force he addresses everything from the past, to the present, to whether enrolling in law school is a good investment for the future. Highly recommended! --Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law Fixing Law Schools is essential reading for anyone who cares about legal education or is thinking of getting one. With enormous insight, wit, and eloquence, Ben Barton describes the challenges facing law schools and their students, and the profession's inadequate responses. At a time when Americans increasingly recognize the importance of the rule of law and reforms to the justice system, this book provides a blueprint for where to start. --Deborah Rhode, Director, Center on the Legal Profession and E. W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford University Nobody knows more about the state of legal education than Ben Barton, and in this tour-de-force he addresses everything from the past, to the present, to whether enrolling in law school is a good investment for the future. Highly recommended! --Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law Fixing Law Schools is essential reading for anyone who cares about legal education or is thinking of getting one. With enormous insight, wit, and eloquence, Ben Barton describes the challenges facing law schools and their students, and the profession's inadequate responses. At a time when Americans increasingly recognize the importance of the rule of law and reforms to the justice system, this book provides a blueprint for where to start. --Deborah Rhode, Director, Center on the Legal Profession and E. W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford University Author InformationBenjamin Barton is Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. He is author of several books, including The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice (Encounter Books, 2022); Fixing Law Schools: From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond (NYU Press, 2019); and Rebooting Justice; More Technology, Fewer Lawyers, and the Future Of Law (Encounter Books, 2017). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |