Marooned: An Empirical Investigation of Law School Graduates Who Fail the Bar Exam

This article attempts to answer a question that legal academia has been reluctant to even ask: What happens to law school graduates who fail the bar exam? What do they do and how do their lives differ from the lives of their lawyer-classmates? Would their careers have fared any better if they had not gone to law school? There are probably on the order of 150,000 law school graduates in the United States who have taken but never passed a bar exam; this amounts to one in ten J.D.s and the risk falls disparately on black, Hispanic, and Asian law school graduates. The ranks only will increase if the upward trend in law school enrollment and the downward trend in bar passage continue, as they have over the last decade. Despite the vast and growing literature on lawyers, research on those who fail the bar is virtually non-existent. We know astonishingly little about the law school graduates who experience the consequences of the licensing barrier, whatever they may be

The New Intrusion

The article focuses on a new taxonomy introduced for organizing privacy regulations across several stages of information flow including observation, capture and dissemnation. It states that the tort of intrusion imposes liability upon seclusion offers and provides recourse for the observation of data. It also highlights the application of intrusion on modern settings such as web tracking technologies and global positioning systems

Marooned: An Empirical Investigation of Law School Graduates Who Fail the Bar Exam

This article attempts to answer a question that legal academia has been reluctant to even ask: What happens to law school graduates who fail the bar exam? What do they do and how do their lives differ from the lives of their lawyer-classmates? Would their careers have fared any better if they had not gone to law school? There are probably on the order of 150,000 law school graduates in the United States who have taken but never passed a bar exam; this amounts to one in ten J.D.s and the risk falls disparately on black, Hispanic, and Asian law school graduates. The ranks only will increase if the upward trend in law school enrollment and the downward trend in bar passage continue, as they have over the last decade. Despite the vast and growing literature on lawyers, research on those who fail the bar is virtually non-existent. We know astonishingly little about the law school graduates who experience the consequences of the licensing barrier, whatever they may be

Panel Three: First Amendment

Explore the relationship between the law and First Amendment rights, considering where bullying ends and freedom of speech begins