LSAC Resources - Grants

The program welcomes proposals for comparative studies that further understanding of legal training and legal practice both in North America and globally.

• Access to legal education
• Who enters the profession and why
• Why students choose law school
• What determines which law schools students attend
• How students are channeled into law school
• How law schools decide whom to admit, especially the non-LSAT, non-GPA components of those decisions
• The qualities, apart from LSAT score and undergraduate GPA, that are associated with success in law school
• How changes in the policy related to affirmative action have affected law school admission, climate, and curricula
• How social and academic backgrounds affect the experience of legal education
• The economics of legal education
• Effects of different teaching methods
• Studies of teaching methods for some of the new and nontraditional courses (e.g., courses in quantitative methods, alternative dispute resolution, etc.)
• Why students choose particular courses, and what, if anything, their choices have to do with their career directions
• The effects of new technologies (e.g., computer-assisted research, electronic casebooks)
• How new and nontraditional courses and new types of courses are introduced into the curriculum
• How students decide what kinds of jobs to take
• How students are channeled into practice settings
• The factors that determine who enters, remains in, or leaves different areas of law practice
• Student careers from college to first job
• The conditions and methods that enable students to learn most effectively in law school
• How legal education changes students cognitively, socially, and behaviorally