Bar Examinations and Bar Passage
Submissions from 2023
Putting the Bar Exam to the Test: An Examination of the Predictive Validity of Bar Exam Outcomes on Lawyering Effectiveness, Jason M. Scott, Stephen N. Goggin, Rick Trachok, Jenny S. Kwon, Sara Gordon, Dean Gould, Fletcher S. Hiigel, Leah Chan Grinvald, and David Faigman
Submissions from 2022
The Pro Bono Penalty: Extracurricular Activities and Demographic Disparities in Bar Exam Success, Chris Birdsall and Seth Gershenson
The Secret Sauce: Examining Law Schools That Overperform on the Bar Exam, Christopher J. Ryan Jr. and Derek T. Muller
Are Law Schools Cream-Skimming to Bolster Their Bar Exam Pass Rates?, Jason M. Scott and Josh Jackson
Submissions from 2021
Reexamining Relative Bar Performance as a Function of Non-Linearity, Heteroscedasticity, and a New Independent Variable, Rory Bahadur, Kevin Ruth, and Katie Tolliver Jones
Improving the Signal Quality of Grades, Adam Chilton, Peter Joy, Kyle Rozema, and James Thomas
Approaching the Bar: An Analysis of Post-Graduation Bar Exam Study Habits, Joshua L. Jackson and Tiffane Cochran
Analyzing First-Time Bar Exam Passage on the UBE in New York State, New York State Board of Law Examiners and AccessLex Institute
How Should We License Lawyers?, Cassandra Burke Robertson
It's Not Where You Start, It's How You Finish: Predicting Law School and Bar Success, Aaron N. Taylor, Jason M. Scott, and Josh Jackson
Submissions from 2020
Diploma Privilege and the Constitution, Claudia Angelos, Sara J. Berman, Mary Lu Bilek, Carol L. Chomsky, Andrea A. Curcio, Marsha Griggs, Joan W. Howarth, Eileen Kaufman, Deborah Jones Merritt, Patricia E. Salkin, and Judith Welch Wegner
The Bar Exam and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for Immediate Action, Claudia Angelos, Sara J. Berman, Mary Lu Bilek, Carol L. Chomsky, Andrea A. Curcio, Marsha Griggs, Joan W. Howarth, Eileen Kaufman, Deborah Jones Merritt, Patricia E. Salkin, and Judith Welch Wegner
Secure Online High Stakes Testing: A Serious Alternative as Legal Education Moves Online, Sara J. Berman, Gregory J. Brandes, Megan M. Carpenter, and Andrew L. Strauss
Achieving Externship Success: An Empirical Study of the All-Important Law School Externship Experience, Anahid Gharakhanian, Carolyn Young Larmore, and Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti
What Law Must Lawyers Know?, Joan W. Howarth
Assessing the Experiential (R)evolution, Allison Korn and Laila L. Hlass
Building a Better Bar: The Twelve Building Blocks of Minimum Competence, Deborah Jones Merritt and Logan Cornett
Evaluating Productive Mindset Interventions that Promote Excellence on California’s Bar Exam, Victor D. Quintanilla, Sam Erman, Mary C. Murphy, and Greg Walton
Examining the California Cut Score: An Empirical Analysis of Minimum Competency, Public Protection, Disparate Impact, and National Standards, Mitchel L. Winick, Victor D. Quintanilla, Sam Erman, Christina Chong-Nakatsuchi, and Michael Frisby
A Five-Year Retroactive Analysis of Cut Score Impact: California’s Proposed Supervised Provisional License Program, Mitchel Winick, Victor D. Quintanilla, Sam Erman, Christina Chong-Nakatsuchi, and Michael Frisby
Submissions from 2019
Measuring Law Student Success from Admissions Through Bar Passage: More Data the Bench, Bar and Academy Need to Know, Andrea A. Curcio, Hong Jiang, Mary Lu Bilek, Jessica Gabel Cino, and Allie Robbins
Building a Better Bar Exam, Marsha Griggs
What Law Must Lawyers Know?, Joan W. Howarth
Ringing Changes: Systems Thinking About Legal Licensing, Joan W. Howarth and Judith Welch Wegner
A Preliminary Study Looking Beyond LSAT and LGPA: Factors During the Bar Study Period That May Affect Bar Exam Passage, Hong Jiang, Andrea A. Curcio, and Kim D'Haene
A Study of the Relationship Between Law School Coursework and Bar Exam Outcomes, Robert R. Kuehn and David R. Moss
A Rebuttal to Kinsler's and to Anderson and Muller's Studies on the Purported Relationship between Bar Passage Rates and Attorney Discipline, William Wesley Patton
Submissions from 2018
Battling Biases: How Can Diverse Students Overcome Test Bias on the Multistate Bar Examination, Christina Shu Jien Chong
Test Validity: Faster is Not Necessarily Better, Ruth Colker
How to Build a Better Bar Exam, Andrea A. Curcio, Carol L. Chomsky, and Eileen Kaufman
Law Student Success and Supports: Examining Bar Passage and Factors That Contribute to Student Performance, Amy N. Farley, Christopher M. Swoboda, Joel Chanvisanuruk, Keanen M. McKinley, and Alicia Boards
A Statistical Exploration: Analyzing the Relationship (If Any) between Externship Participation and Bar Exam Scores, Scott Johns
Assessments All the Way Down, James S. McGrath and Andrew P. Morriss
Submissions from 2017
The High Cost of Lowering the Bar, Robert Anderson IV and Derek T. Muller
Will I Pass the Bar Exam? Predicting Student Success Using LSAT Scores and Law School Performance, Katherine Austin-Beltz, Catherine Martin Christopher, and Darby Dickerson
The Case for a Uniform Cut Score, Joan W. Howarth
Testing Basics: What You Cannot Afford Not to Know, Joanne E. Kane and Andrew A. Mroch
Is Bar Exam Failure a Harbinger of Professional Discipline?, Jeffrey S. Kinsler
The Secret to 85% First-Time Bar Passage Rates, Jeffrey S. Kinsler and David L. Hudson Jr.
Bar Exam Scores and Lawyer Discipline, Deborah J. Merritt
Validity, Competence, and the Bar Exam, Deborah Jones Merritt
"They're Digging in the Wrong Place": How Learning Outcomes Can Improve Bar Exams and Ensure Practice Ready Attorneys, Debra Moss Vollweiler
Submissions from 2016
Empirical Reflections: A Statistical Evaluation of Bar Exam Program Interventions, Scott Johns
Testing the Testers: The National Conference of Bar Examiners' LSAT Claim and a Roller Coaster Bar Exam Ride, Scott Johns
What Predicts Law Student Success? A Longitudinal Study Correlating Law Student Applicant Data and Law School Outcomes, Alexia Brunet Marks and Scott A. Moss
Submissions from 2015
Speed (Not the Drug, and It Does Not Kill, But It Can Cause Stress), Mark A. Albanese
Predicting First-year Law School Performance: The Influences of Race, Gender, and Undergraduate Major, John Fordyce, Lisa K. Jepsen, and Ken McCormick
Ahead of the Curve: Turning Law Students into Lawyers, Alli Gerkman, Elena Harman, Lloyd Bond, and William M. Sullivan
Why the Bar Examination Fails to Raise the Bar, Carol Goforth
Equating the MBE, Michael T. Kane and Andrew Mroch
Legal Education at a Crossroads: A Response to Measuring Merit: The Shultz-Zedeck Research on Law School Admissions, Adam Lamparello
Submissions from 2014
Improving the Performance of the Performance Test: The Key to Meaningful Bar Exam Reform, Ben Bratman
"Practice Ready Graduates": A Millennialist Fantasy, Robert J. Condlin
Submissions from 2013
Bar Passage: GPA and LSAT, Not Bar Reviews, Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos
Submissions from 2012
The Roosevelt-Cardozo Way: The Case for Bar Eligibility After Two Years of Law School, Samuel Estreicher
Admission to Law School: New Measures, Marjorie M. Shultz and Sheldon Zedeck
Submissions from 2011
Yes We Can, Pass the Bar. University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law Bar Passage Initiatives and Bar Pass Rates—From the Titanic to the Queen Mary!, Derek Alphran, Tanya Washington, and Vincent Eagan
Mapping Lawyer Competencies Onto the Law School Curriculum to Confirm that Graduates are Prepared for Law Practice, Nelson P. Miller
Submissions from 2010
Marooned: An Empirical Investigation of Law School Graduates Who Fail the Bar Exam, Jane Yakowitz
Curriculum Design and Bar Passage: New York Law School's Experience, Donald H. Zeigler, Joanne Ingham, and David Chang
Submissions from 2008
For-Credit Bar Exam Preparation: A Legal Writing Model, Ben Bratman
Measuring Outcomes: Post-Graduation Measures of Success in the U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings, Andrew P. Morriss and William D. Henderson
Unpacking the Bar: Of Cut Scores, Competence and Crucibles, Gary S. Rosin
Submissions from 2007
The Relationship Between Law School and the Bar Exam: A Look at Assessment and Student Success, Lorenzo Alan Trujillo
Submissions from 2005
Cool Data on a Hot Issue: Empirical Evidence that a Law School Bar Support Program Enhances Bar Performance, Linda Jellum and Emmeline Paulette Reeves
Submissions from 2004
A Forked River Runs Through Law School: Toward Understanding Race, Gender, Age, and Related Gaps in Law School Performance and Bar Passage, Timothy T. Clydesdale
Finding Success in the "Cauldron of Competition:" The Effectiveness of Academic Support Programs, Leslie Yalof Garfield and Kelly Koenig Levi
Standardized Clients: A Possible Improvement for the Bar Exam, Lawrence M. Grosberg
The LSAT, Law School Exams, and Meritocracy: The Surprising and Undertheorized Role of Test-Taking Speed, William D. Henderson
The Bar Examination and the Dream Deferred: A Critical Analysis of the MBE, Social Closure, and Racial and Ethnic Stratification, William C. Kidder
Students with "CLAS": An Alternative to Traditional Bar Examinations, Sally Simpson and Toni M. Massaro
Submissions from 2003
Incremental Bar Admission: Lessons from the Medical Profession, Jayne W. Barnard and Mark Greenspan
Thinking Out of the Bar Exam Box: A Proposal to "MacCrate" Entry to the Profession, Kristin Booth Glen
Submissions from 2002
A Better Bar: Why and How the Existing Bar Exam Should Change, Andrea A. Curcio
When and Where We Enter: Rethinking Admission to the Legal Profession, Kristin Booth Glen
Submissions from 2001
Raising the Bar: A Social Science Critique of Recent Increases to Passing Scores on the Bar Exam, Deborah Jones Merritt, Lowell L. Hargens, and Barbara F. Reskin
Submissions from 1996
Guests in Another's House: An Analysis of Racially Disparate Bar Performance, Cecil J. Hunt II
Submissions from 1995
The Art and Science of Academic Support, Kristine S. Knaplund and Richard H. Sander
