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Since launching our grantmaking activities in 2014, we have awarded $30.7 million in support of our research priorities: access, affordability, and the value of legal education.
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University of St. Thomas School of Law
Program:
Unsolicited Grants Program
Date:
August 2015
Amount:
$67,000
Status:
Completed
Paying special attention to trends over time, Professor Jerome Organ conducted research on variable affordability of law school on a net cost basis for student cohorts between 2010 and 2014.
To read more, please visit Net Tuition Trends by LSAT Category from 2010 to 2014 with Thoughts on Variable Return on Investment
UC Hastings College of the Law
Program:
Unsolicited Grants Program
Date:
July 2015
Amount:
$95,000
Status:
Completed
UC Hastings received a grant to support a feasibility study that examined the viability of evolving UC Hastings’ current Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) into a post-baccalaureate program that would address the specific standardized academic deficits commonly identified among students with adverse academic, social, economic, and culture backgrounds.
To read more, please visit Legal Education Opportunity Program
Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at University of Denver
Program:
Directed Grants Program
Date:
April 2015
Amount:
$100,000
Status:
Completed
Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, an initiative of IAALS, will collect data for its Foundations for Practice project. Foundations for Practice is a multi-year project designed to identify the foundations entry-level lawyers need to succeed in the practice of law; develop measurable models of legal education that support those foundations; and align market needs with hiring practices to incentivize positive improvements.
Download the full report at iaals.du.edu.
Texas A&M University School of Law
Program:
Directed Grants Program
Date:
April 2015
Amount:
$370,000
Status:
Completed
Through the Texas Lawyers Study, Texas A&M University School of Law will survey nearly 88,000 members of the State Bar of Texas to collect data regarding income levels, demographics and career satisfaction. The data will be used to better understand the varying effects of a law degree based on student characteristics as well to produce scholarly research on the economic value of a law degree.
William Mitchell College of Law
Program:
Unsolicited Grants Program
Date:
March 2015
Amount:
$89,000
Status:
Completed
With the intent to increase access and affordability to legal education by leveraging technology, The Hybrid Program offers students a part-time, on-campus/online option for a J.D. program. The first of its kind at an American Bar Association accredited school, the program underwent evaluation by measuring student engagement as well as learning outcomes for participants in the program.
To read more, please visit Blended Learning at Mitchell Hamline
University of Colorado Law School
Program:
Directed Grants Program
Date:
June 2014
Amount:
$200,000
Status:
Completed
Funding from AccessLex Institute helped support the development of the Tech Lawyer Accelerator Program at the University of Colorado Law School. This innovative program helped students secure jobs in technology and entrepreneurship and was designed to offer first- and second-year law students extensive educational training and professional experience with local and national technology firms.
Second year funding provided support to University of Colorado Law School to enhance the curriculum for its Tech Lawyer Accelerator (TLA) program, grow participation in the program and enhance the tracking of program effectiveness. The TLA program provided competency-based training for law students focused on the technology industry.
To read more, please visit New Tech Lawyer Accelerator Program Garners Inaugural Access Group Grant
Seton Hall University School of Law
Program:
Directed Grants Program
Date:
June 2014
Amount:
$120,000
Status:
Completed
Building on their previous paper, The Economic Value of a Law Degree, Michael Simkovic, Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law and Frank McIntyre, Assistant Professor of Finance at Rutgers Business School will use federal and national data sources to perform an empirical analysis of heterogeneity and cohort effects in the law school premium, and the effect of a law degree on earnings for specific identifiable subgroups of law students.
To read more, please visit The Economic Value of a Law Degree