Colleges have entered a game that law schools have been playing for years. “Colleges Seek Warm Bodies From Overseas,” announced a recent New York Times headline. The story had an equally pointed title online: “Recruiting Students Overseas to Fill Seats, Not to Meet Standards.”
For years, law schools have been dropping standards to fill classrooms. Marginal schools have been the worst offenders, and the profession is now paying the price in declining bar passage rates. But even among top schools, a more subtle and profitable technique has pervaded law school business plans for years: expanding LLM programs.
