All reports in LSAC’s Research Library are available upon request. Executive summaries are available below for the latest LSAT Technical Reports and other research published within the last 10 years.
Current Research:
This report focuses on first-year law school enrollment from 2021 through 2025, highlighting who is enrolling in law school, where they enrolled, and how rates of enrollment of racially and ethnically minoritized students varied across law schools.
This report provides insight into how students with disabilities in the 2024-2025 1L class navigated the law school application process.
This report provides important insights that law schools and stakeholders can use to support student retention and development in law school and beyond.
What funding sources did the 2024 1L class use to pay for law school? How much debt do they expect to have when they graduate?
This report focuses on the 2024 1L class, examining who is enrolling in law school, where they enrolled, and how they made their enrollment decision.
This report focuses on first-year law school enrollment from 2021 through 2024, highlighting who is enrolling in law school, where they enrolled, and how rates of enrollment of racially and ethnically minoritized students varied across law schools.
Based on survey responses from 2023 law school matriculants, this report provides nuanced information about factors that affect law school decision-making processes for students with disabilities.
This report focuses on the 2023 1L class, examining who is enrolling in law school, where they enrolled, and how they made their enrollment decision.
An in-depth look at how law schools are supporting LGBTQ+ individuals through their legal education journey.
Based on survey responses from 2022 law school matriculants, this report provides nuanced information about factors that affect law school decision-making processes for students with disabilities.
The LSAC Research team has issued a first-of-its-kind report offering a highly nuanced perspective on how law schools support LGBTQ+ students.
By Elizabeth Bodamer and Debra Langer
By Elizabeth Bodamer and Debra Langer
In this piece published in the Association of American Law Schools’ Journal of Legal Education, LSAC DEI Policy & Research Analyst and Senior Program Manager Elizabeth Bodamer explores the experiences of minoritized students in U.S. law schools.
Data shows that justice-impacted individuals face a particularly difficult path to legal education. Is it time to talk about reform?