Abstract

Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be...Lawyers

Herwig J. Schlunk
Vanderbilt University School of Law

October 30, 2009

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Working Paper No. 09-29

Abstract:
This essay treats a legal education as an investment, and asks the question of whether, based on known costs and expected benefits, such investment should be undertaken. The inquiry will necessarily differ from one potential law student to another. But for three posited “typical students,” the investment is shown to be a bad one.

Keywords: value of a legal education

JEL Classifications: K19

Working Paper Series

Date posted: October 31, 2009 ; Last revised: November 13, 2009

Suggested Citation

Schlunk, Herwig J., Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be...Lawyers (October 30, 2009). Vanderbilt Law and Economics Working Paper No. 09-29. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1497044

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