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40 Pace L. Rev. 1 (2019-2020)

handle is hein.journals/pace40 and id is 1 raw text is: Law School as a Consumer Product: Beat 'em or Join 'em? By Debra Moss Vollweiler* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. In trodu ction .......................................................................... 1 II. Legal Education as a Consumer Product: How Did It Get. 3 A. General Consumerism by Students ................... 3 B. Legislation and Case Law Establish the Student M indset Further ................................................................. 7 C. Specific Concerns in Legal Education ..................... 12 III. How to Handle the Consumer Mindset by Students: When to Hold and W hen to Fold? ................................................... 17 A . A dm issions ............................................................... 18 B. Academ ic Integrity ................................................... 19 C. Curriculum: Offerings and Schedule ....................... 21 D. Faculty-Student Issues ........................................... 26 1. Academ ic Freedom .................................................... 26 2. G rades ..................................................................... 29 E. Regulations and Requirements ............................... 32 F. Student Services ..................................................... 33 G. Career Developm ent ............................................... 37 H . Bar Preparation ....................................................... 40 IV . C onclusions ..................................................................... 42 I. Introduction With rising costs, pressure on performance metrics, and competitive high-profile rankings, law schools are more than ever before being judged on a consumer satisfaction basis by both students and the public. While this perception has been growing over the past two decades, it has reached a crisis point in legal education.1 Courts have been more readily viewing the * Debra Moss Vollweiler is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University (NSU), Shepard Broad College of Law. Thanks to Samantha Gozlan, NSU J.D. Candidate, 2019, for her tremendous assistance with this research, as well as Taylor Lang and Jared Octala, NSU J.D, Candidates, 2021, for their additional assistance. 1. See Robert M. Lloyd, Consumerism in Legal Education, 45 J. LEGAL EDUC. 551 (1995).

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