Constitutional Law

Minority Law School Enrollment Continues to Drop

A new study by researchers at Columbia Law School and the Society of American Law Teachers  reported that nationwide enrollment of African-American and Mexican-American students in U.S. law schools has fallen 8.6% in the past 15 years, and could continue to fall.

Applications to law schools among those minority groups have remained constant since 1992, and law school enrollment overall has continued to rise. Vernellia Randall, a professor at Dayton Law, cited law schools’ reliance on LSAT scores as a cause of declining enrollment. “It’s going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better,” she said.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on January 25, 2008 (boomark / email).