Despite the myths and the movies, law teaching does little more than the most obvious things for its students. It is a sometimes clever, often boring, initiation rite for the legal profession, and it serves up reams of information about the law. However, the materials of law are the materials of human beings, and these experiences have to be…

This book contains information on legal education opportunities for minority groups, focusing especially on scholarships and special programs. The bulk of the book consists of a directory of the approximately 135 law schools that responded to a questionnaire. For each school, information is offered on: total size, freshman class size, out-of-state…

A study, conducted to test the influence of biorhythms on law school performance, focused on academic disadvantages, absenteeism and withdrawal, biorhythm compatibility among students and teacher, and study efficiency. One conclusion is that outside employment and basic ability are more important than biorhythms in determining success. (JMD)

The problem method is defined and legal education objectives and achievement of those objectives by the problem method are examined. The use of the problem method in specific courses is discussed. An appendix lists problem method materials currently available to law teachers. (Author/MLW)

This report proposes an approach to formalize the law school admission process by first requiring law schools to delineate the characteristics they want their incoming classes to possess (e.g., types of undergraduate major, percent of in-state versus out-of-state residents, and levels of cultural diversity). These are then used as constraints on…

This study was designed to address questions of differential validity and questions of differential prediction in the law school admission process. The former were evaluated by comparing the magnitude of validity coefficients resulting from both simple and multiple correlations between first-year performance in law school and the traditional…

A new course of clinical education at the University of Mississippi is described. A member of the teaching faculty was appointed under the Criminal Justice Act to represent indigent defendants with the assistance of student interns. Goals for the future and possible implementation at other law schools are discussed. (MLW)

The law review, it is suggested, is a species of publication that exists primarily to be written, not to be read. How the institution came into being, how a law review actually functions, and the consequences of the dominant law review pattern for legal education and the profession are examined. (Author/MLW)

Profiles Native American graduates of tribal colleges who are now in law school at Arizona State University (ASU). Describes the ways in which tribal colleges prepared these students for the demands of graduate education. (NB)

Because certain disabilities cause students to need additional time to complete course work, law schools typically allow enrollment in fewer credit hours, which requires additional time for program completion. Tuition adjustment is considered as a possible solution to this problem, and it is concluded law schools may have to adjust tuition…

This paper outlines the changes and resultant strategy alterations that took place in the legal education system of the Lao People's Democratic Republic in 1991 and how these changes affected the Vientiane School of Law. In the late 1980s, the government was transformed from a centrally-governed economy into a market economy. The difficult task…

This report examined 10-year trends in applications to Maryland's two law schools (the University of Baltimore School of Law and the University of Maryland School of Law), enrollment, and the first-time passage rates of graduates on the Maryland Bar Examination. Breakdowns by gender and race are also provided. The study also explored the projected…

Although the study of communication has been consistently recognized as a vital segment of legal training, it has not been universally adopted as part of the law school curriculum. A survey of 150 law schools was designed to determine the communication skills and training necessary for competent performance in both law school and professional…

The main purpose of this project (1966-1969) was to provide law students with a basic understanding of modern sociological inquiry since the importance of sociology to the law has increased with applications ranging from the presentation of evidence in court to the design of programs for legal reform and social change. The general objective here…

This study was designed to address questions of differential prediction of law school grades for various racial/ethnic minority subgroups. Differential prediction was evaluated by comparing the predicted and actual law school first-year grade point averages (FYAs) for various racial/ethnic subgroups within individual law schools based on…