Adam Chilton's Study on Alternative Pathways Into Legal Profession Featured in New Article
Turns Out The ABA’s Gatekeeping Role Actually Does Something
There is a new empirical study that lands at a very awkward moment for a very loud political argument.
The study, by Adam Chilton of the University of Chicago Law School and co-authors from Northwestern and Cleveland State, is titled “Alternative Educational Pathways into the Legal Profession.” It covers 35 years of data, from 1984 to 2019, on every attempt by every state to let people become lawyers without going through an ABA-approved law school — apprenticeships, law office study, correspondence programs, and non-ABA law schools. The findings are, to put it gently, not great for folks that want to kick the ABA to the curb.
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