Well-respected professor predicts a top law school will close soon, and 'we may never see it coming'

Business Insider ^ | 03/19/2016 | Jeremy Berke

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A well-respected law professor is predicting that a top law school will close in the next few years.

"In 2 to 4 years, a university administration will shut down a top law school and we may never see it coming," Dorothy A. Brown, a professor of tax law at Emory University School of Law, wrote in a column for Forbes on Thursday.

Brown previously predicted the demise of law schools last year, citing a declining legal job market.

Now Brown is doubling down on her predictions. Because law school is no longer a safe bet to landing a lucrative legal job, first-year (1L) applications have been sinking at many schools.

In an interview with Business Insider last year, Brown said that, "Most people at top-50 law schools think this is a fourth-tier or a third-tier problem, and I think that misses the mark."

Even at top-tier law schools, like Yale and Harvard, applications are down 13% and 18% respectively between 2011 and 2015. At Columbia, the problem is even more acute: Applications are down 25% over the same time period, according to the American Bar Association.

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