Posts by David Frakt

by David Frakt and Carolyn Gachet* The use of distance learning in higher education is rapidly increasing.  Although many law schools have been slow to incorporate distance learning into their…

North Carolina Central University recently announced that, as part of its response to the ABA's notice that it was out of compliance with ABA Standard 501 on Admissions, the school…

As I have reviewed the ABA Bar Passage Data spreadsheet, I've noticed some oddities that I thought worthy of sharing with TFL readers.  What the heck is going on at Southern ...

Continuing with my series on the ABA Bar Passage Data Revised Spreadsheet, in this post I will focus on the 2015 Ultimate Bar Passage sheet. In 2016, the ABA Council ...

The ABA's Bar Passage Data Spreadsheet should put to bed, finally, any doubts about the correlation between LSAT scores and bar passage rates, and provides strong support for the ABA's ...

Last week, the ABA released a new product, a spreadsheet which compiles data on bar passage from all ABA-accredited law schools.  The spreadsheet is supposed to provide more timely information for ...

GREAT NEWS! SEE UPDATE AT END OF POST Many TFL readers may know Associate Professor Myanna Dellinger, or be familiar with her work.  Myanna is the Editor-in-Chief of the ContractsProfBlog ...

I regret to announce that on February 3, 2018, my father, Arthur Frakt, a retired law professor and law school administrator, died peacefully at his home in Alta, Wyoming. He…

For some time, I have been arguing that many bottom-tier law schools have been violating Standard 501(b)’s mandate to admit only students who “appear capable of satisfactorily completing its program ...

Recently, I raised questions about whether some schools might be exploiting their part-time students, noting that at many law schools, the admissions credentials for part-time students were far lower than…