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52 J. Legal Educ. 506 (2002)
Information Technology and U.S. Legal Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Threats

handle is hein.journals/jled52 and id is 514 raw text is: Information Technology and U.S. Legal Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Threats Peter W. Martin Overview Digital technology holds out exciting opportunities to U.S. law schools. They can involve academics, lawyers, and judges situated anywhere in the world in their educational program * offer both less costly and more flexible educational arrangements provide access to students currently excluded by cost and distance * distribute faculty scholarship more widely, at less cost share courses and students extend their reach to regions and educational audiences previ- ously closed It also exposes U.S. law schools individually and collectively to severe challenges. Not only may others claim the new opportunities opened by digital technology, but they may also upset the current market forJ.D. educa- tion. Possible futures include the emergence of a few dominant programs, at least for some segments of the already stratified legal education marketplace * law schools retaining credentialing authority while more and more of the preceding education is delivered by commercial entities failure for law schools that cannot deliver value for the added costs entailed in residential instruction * erosion of the symbiosis between faculty teaching and scholarship Many schools lack the institutional competence to respond effectively. Among the organizational and cultural elements that handicap law schools in the current environment are * limited capacity to respond quickly and strategically to external change PeterW. Martin <matintii@lii.law.corncll.cdut> is the ,anc M. G. Foster pirof essor and coditrcctor of the l cgal Information Institte at Cotrnell law School. Journal of Legal Education, Volume 52, NumIer 'I (December 2002)

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