In next week's National Law Journal:  At Public Law Schools, Tuition Jumps Sharply; Students May Pay as Much as 20% More at Some State Institutions, by Karen Sloan:

Double-digit tuition increases loom for students at some of the country's top public law schools.

School administrators say that the unusually large tuition hikes for the coming academic year are largely spurred by cuts in public funding — with endowment losses, initiatives to improve their schools and pressure to keep up with competing institutions also playing a part.

Even with the higher tuition costs next year, public schools will remain generally cheaper than their private counterparts. But the shrinking public/private tuition gap has led administrators and professors to worry about whether public institutions are fulfilling their mission of remaining affordable. …

[T]he tuition increases are bound to heighten the financial burdens of public law school students, who already graduate with an average of $71,436 in law school debt, according to the latest available statistics from the ABA. …

It's not yet clear how overall tuition increases this year compare to previous years. The ABA tracks tuition at U.S. law schools but has not yet collected data for the 2009-10 academic year. During the 2008-09 school year, the average public school tuition for resident students grew by 9% to $16,836. The increase was 7% for average out-of-state tuition at public schools and 6% at private law schools

Here are 2009-10 tuition increases at various public law schools:

• Indiana-Bloomington:  25% in-state
• Iowa:  20% in-state, 13% out-of-state
• UC-Davis: 19% in-state, +10% out-of-state
• Colorado:  16% in-state 1Ls, 20% in-state 2Ls, 12% in-state 3Ls
• Texas:  16% in-state, 11% out-of-state
• UC-Berkeley:  16% in-state, 11% out-of state
• Minnesota:  15% in-state 1Ls, 8% everyone else
• UCLA:  14% in-state, 10% out-of-state
• University of Washington:  14%
• UC-Hastings:  12% in-state, 10% out-of-state
• Virginia:  5%
• Michigan:  4%

Update:  Robyn M.H. Schuster, Assistant Dean for Communications and Marketing at indiana-Bloomington, writes: "ecause of scholarships provided by the School, not a single resident student is paying full tuition. The scholarships reduce the effective rate of the in-state tuition increase to 9.9% (as opposed to the 25% reported in the story)."