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Muller: Are Law Schools Prepared For A Multi-Year Cycle Of Substantial Declines In 1L Enrollment?

Paul Caron
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Derek Muller (Iowa), Are Law Schools Prepared For a Multi-Year Cycle of Substantial Declines in 1L Enrollment?:

While 1L JD enrollment hit a nine-year high this year, Dean Paul Caron has been tracking the declining figures for the upcoming year. Maybe that’s not too bad for law schools, given that they’ve seen this growth and are, perhaps, a bit more able to insulate it against it next year. Applicants might end up looking more like 2020 levels rather than 2021 levels.

But another thing to watch? Test-takers are cratering. …

The later in the cycle it gets, the more these tests are likely to portend figures for the next cycle. And they suggest a fairly significant decline for the Fall 2023 cycle.

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Paul Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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