Big Drop in Minority Law Students

March 3, 2008

According to a recent ABA Journal article, “nationwide enrollment of African-American and Mexican-American students in U.S. law schools is down significantly since 1992 and could drop further.”  The article cites statistics gathered by folks at Columbia Law School and the Society of American Law Teachers.   According to Vernellia Randall, a professor at the University of Dayton School of Law in Ohio,  “it’s going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.”  Randall has put together a report entitled America’s Whitest Law Schools

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