The Virtual Law School?

11/18/98


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Table of Contents

The Virtual Law School?

The Virtual Law School?

Disclaimers

It’s a Business

Costs Are Rising

Value for Money?

Market Segmentation

Two Assumptions

Technology Keeps Improving

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Guild Rules Give Way

ABA Accreditation Rules Become Irrelevant

The Big Question

The Irresistible Rise of the Virtual Law School

Precursors, circa 1997

Distance Learning

Distance Learning Today

Advanced Telecomms

Peter Martin, Adjunct Extraordinaire

Three credits spread over two semesters

Tools

What Are Classes Like?

Grades and Money

New Courseware

Internet courses

Other Distance Learning in US. Law Schools

The Economics of Virtuality

High Fixed Costs

Low marginal costs

The End of the “Scarcity” Rationale for Many Policies

Savings for anything that can be done long-distance

Therefore

New national market for law teaching services

Brand Name Education

Foreign and Comparative Law Can Be Taught by Experts Living Abroad

National market for adjuncts

The Great Transformation

The Virtual Law School?

How It Might Work

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There Will Be Winners and Losers

Winners

Losers

Will Law Schools Become HMOs?

Is The Virtual Law School Good For Students?

More Advantages

Empirical Evidence

More Data

Counter-Arguments

Timing Is Everything

Adoption of New Technology in Teaching by 1995

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The Virtual Law School

Next Week: Cloning Your Law School

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Author: Michael Froomkin

Email: froomkin@law.tm

Home Page: http://www.law.tm

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