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Paper Asks, Does Law School Curriculum Affect Bar Examination Passage? October 2007 (SmartPros) — Douglas Rush, assistant dean at St. Louis Law, and St. Louis Univ. research methodology associate professor Hisako Matsuo, have co-written a paper,"Does Law School Curriculum Affect Bar Examination Passage?" The authors documented every student's courseload for five different graduating classes at St. Louis Law School. They analyzed the number of bar topic courses taken against bar passage rates for first-time takers. The research found virtually no correlation between law school courseloads and the bar passage rates. The authors found that most law schools have created remedial programs for their students with lower class ranks, requiring them to take upper division, bar examination subject matter courses to improve their bar passage rates. However, these classes didn't seem to help with the passage rates. Writes Rush, "students in the upper two quartiles passed the exam at an extremely high rate and those in the fourth quartile failed at a high rate, regardless of which classes they took in law school." An abstract of the paper, and free download access, is available at http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/1889 © Copyright 2007 SmartPros Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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