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
- Career paths within the legal profession
- 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
- How upheavals in the economy have affected the legal market and 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