The Virtual Law School? Or, How the Internet Will De-Skill the Professoriate, and Turn Your Law School into a Conference Center

1/28/2000


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The Virtual Law School? Or, How the Internet Will De-Skill the Professoriate, and Turn Your Law School into a Conference Center

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Law Teaching Is a Business

Problem: Costs Are Rising

Is Distance Learning the Answer?

Integration of New Technology in Law Schools

Concord U. -- Just the Beginning

Two Assumptions

Technology Keeps Improving

Guild Rules Give Way

The Economics of Virtuality

You Need Radically New Courseware

High Fixed Costs

Low marginal costs

The End of the “Scarcity” Rationale for Many Policies

Modest Predictions

New national market for law teaching services

Brand Name Education

Foreign & Comparative Law Can Be Taught by Experts Living Abroad

The Big Question

The REALLY Big Question “What will this do to my law school?”

The Big Answer

There Will Be Winners . . . and Losers

Most Probable Scenario: Market Segments into 4 Parts

Winners: Brand name institutions

Winners: Upstarts

Winners(?): State Schools

Losers: Private Law Schools in the Middle

Winners: Star Virtual Educators

Winners(?): Students

More Advantages

Curricular Consequences of the Virtual Law School

BIG LOSERS: Most Faculty

Alternate View of How It Might Work

The Really Virtual Law School

Will Law Schools Become HMOs?

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Counter-Arguments

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The Virtual Law School

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Author: Michael Froomkin

Email: froomkin@law.tm

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