It was a GOOD week for …
The class of 2017, after Ted Seto, a law professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, published a paper that makes a case for the fact that there will be an undersupply of law graduates in 2017. The tax professor does the math, showing that the current oversupply will dwindle by 2016. “A degrees-awarded-per-capita analysis suggests that beginning in fall 2015 and intensifying into 2016 employers are likely to experience an undersupply of law grads, provided that the economic recovery continues.”
It was a BAD week for …
Students at Phoenix School of Law who hope to transfer, after it was alleged that the school passed is working hard to make it difficult to transfer. Michael O’Connor and Celia Rumann, who are married and had tenure. Alledge they were fired, in part, because they opposed the school’s new transfer procedures. The professors say the school now requires potential transfers to meet with an administrator. It has also discussed discouraging professors from writing letters of recommendation, changing first-year classes to make them incompatible with other schools, and adopting a pass-fail grading system to make it hard for other schools to identify top students.
