Law School Admissions
Submissions from 2023
The Legacy and Opportunity of Affirmative Action, Jackie O'Neil
Submissions from 2022
Show Them the Money: Improving Consumer Information on Need and Merit-Based Gift Aid to Equitably Empower Prospective Law Students, Domonique Edwards, Kelsey Risman, and Tiffane Cochran
"More than the Numbers": Empirical Evidence of an Innovative Approach to Admissions, Anahid Gharakhanian, Natalie Rodriguez, and Elizabeth A. Anderson
An Access and Equity Ranking of Public Law Schools, Christopher L. Mathis
Submissions from 2021
Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of the Nation's Black Law Students: An Analysis of Data from the LSSSE Survey, Kevin D. Brown and Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt
Analyzing Pathways to the J.D. with National Student Clearinghouse Data, Tiffane Cochran and Lauren Walker
JD-Next: A Valid and Reliable Tool to Predict Diverse Students’ Success in Law School, Jessica Findley, Adriana Cimetta, Heidi Legg Burross, Katherine C. Cheng, Matt Charles, Cayley Balser, Ran Li, and Christopher Robertson
The Effect of the Uniform Bar Examination on Admissions, Diversity, Affordability, and Employment across Law Schools in the United States, Manuel S. González Canché, Taylor K. Odle, and Ji Yeon Bae
Affirmative Action and the Leadership Pipeline, Joni Hersch
Reducing Debt and Increasing Access to the Profession: An Empirical Study of Graduate Debt at U.S. Law Schools, Scott F. Norberg and Stephanie J. Garcia
Submissions from 2020
Roadmap to Enrolling Diverse Law School Classes, Volume 4: Contextualizing Admission Factors, AccessLex Institute
Who's Going to Law School? Trends in Law School Enrollment Since the Great Recession, Miranda Li, Phillip Yao, and Goodwin Liu
Submissions from 2019
Examining Graduate Lending: Access vs. Private Lending, AccessLex Institute
The LSAT and the Reproduction of Hierarchy, Diane Curtis
The Aid Gap, Chris Gunthrie and Emily Lamm
Less Talk, More Action: How Law Schools Can Counteract Racial Bias of LSAT Scores in the Admissions Process, LaTasha Hill
More Transparency, Please, Kyle McEntee
Are Law Schools Engines of Inequality?, Richard H. Sander
The Marginalization of Black Aspiring Lawyers, Aaron N. Taylor
Submissions from 2018
Why Didn't Students Complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)? A Detailed Look, Steven Bahr, Dinah Sparks, and Kathleen Mulvaney Hoyer
A Way Forward: Transparency in 2018, Kyle McEntee and Iowa State Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division
Defining Access: How Test-Optional Works, Steven Syverson, Valerie W. Franks, and William C. Hiss
Robin Hood, In Reverse: How Law School Scholarships Compound Inequality, Aaron N. Taylor
Submissions from 2017
Scholarships at Risk: The Mathematics of Merit Stipulations in Financial Aid Awards, James Ming Chen
Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility, Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan
The Pell Grant Proxy: A Ubiquitous But Flawed Measure of Low Income Student Enrollment, Jason Delisle
Alternative Paths to Diversity: Exploring and Implementing Effective College Admissions Policies, Educational Testing Service, Gary Orfield, Stella M. Flores, Catherine L. Horn, William C. Kidder, Patricia Gándara, and Mark C. Long
Agreements to Improve Student Aid: An Antitrust Perspective, Deborah Jones Merritt and Andrew Lloyd Merritt
Assessing the Viability of Race-Neutral Alternatives in Law School Admissions, Eboni S. Nelson, Ronald Pitner, and Carla D. Pratt
Can Socioeconomic Status Substitute for Race in Affirmative Action College Admissions Policies? Evidence from a Simulation Model, Sean F. Reardon, Rachel Baker, Matt Kasman, Daniel Klasik, and Joseph B. Townsend
Law School-Administered Financial Aid: The Good News and the Bad News, William C. Whitford
Submissions from 2016
The Struggle for Access from Sweatt to Grutter: A History of African American, Latino, and American Indian Law School Admissions, 1950–2000, William C. Kidder
Submissions from 2015
The False Choice Between Race and Class and Other Affirmative Action Myths, Lisa R. Pruitt
Submissions from 2014
LSAT Performance with Regional, Gender, and Racial/Ethnic Breakdowns: 2007-2008 Through 2013-2014 Testing Years, Susan P. Dalessandro, Lisa C. Anthony, and Lynda M. Reese
Still Hazy After All These Years: The Data and Theory Behind 'Mismatch', William C. Kidder and Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Submissions from 2013
Measuring Merit: The Shultz-Zedeck Research on Law School Admissions, Kristen Holmquist, Marjorie M. Shultz, Sheldon Zedeck, and David B. Oppenheimer
Reimagining Merit as Achievement, Aaron N. Taylor
Do Racial Preferences Affect Minority Learning in Law Schools?, Doug Williams
Submissions from 2012
Painting Beyond the Numbers: The Art of Providing Access in Law School Admissions to Ensure Full Representation in the Profession, Paula Lustbader
Submissions from 2011
Predicting Lawyer Effectiveness: Broadening the Basis for Law School Admissions Decisions, Marjorie M. Shultz and Sheldon Zedeck
Submissions from 2009
The Effects of Educational Diversity in a National Sample of Law Students: Fitting Multilevel Latent Variable Models in Data with Categorical Indicators, Nisha C. Gottfredson, A. T. Panter, Charles E. Daye, Walter F. Allen, and Linda F. Wightman
It Matters How and When You Ask: Self-Reported Race/Ethnicity of Incoming Law Students, A. T. Panter, Charles E. Daye, Walter R. Allen, Linda F. Wightman, and Meera E. Deo
Submissions from 2008
Racial and Ethnic Preferences in Admissions at the University of Nebraska College of Law, Althea K. Nagai
Cracking the Egg: Which Came First—Stigma or Affirmative Action?, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Emily Houh, and Mary Campbell
Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?, Jesse Rothstein and Albert H. Yoon
Submissions from 2006
Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School, Erica M. Field
Misuse and Abuse of the LSAT: Making the Case for Alternative Evaluative Efforts and a Redefinition of Merit, Phoebe A. Haddon and Deborah W. Post
The Misuse of the LSAT: Discrimination Against Blacks and Other Minorities in Law School Admissions, Vernellia R. Randall
Submissions from 2005
Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analytic Review of Research, Selcuk R. Sirin
Submissions from 2003
Admissions Rituals as Political Acts: Guardians at the Gates of Our Democratic Ideals, Lani Guinier
Submissions from 2001
Does the LSAT Mirror or Magnify Racial and Ethnic Differences in Education Attainment: A Study of Equally Achieving Elite College Students, William C. Kidder
Submissions from 2000
Portia Denied: Unmasking Gender Bias on the LSAT and Its Relationship to Racial Diversity in Legal Education, William C. Kidder
Submissions from 1997
The Threat to Diversity in Legal Education: An Empirical Analysis of the Consequences of Abandoning Race as a Factor in Law School Admissions Decisions, Linda F. Wightman
Submissions from 1987
Black Enrollment in Law Schools: Forward to the Past?, Edward J. Littlejohn and Leonard J. Rubinowitz
