ABSTRACT
This paper was prepared for presentation at the workshop on “Too Many Lawyers?
Facts, Reasons, Consequences and Solutions”, International Institute for the
Sociology of Law, O˜nati, Spain, 19-20 April 2012. My thanks go to Masayuki
Murayama, Daniel Foote, Avrom Sherr and Hazel Genn for sharing with me their
insights regarding developments in their own countries. Thanks also to David Clark
for sharing with me, what was at the time, a forthcoming chapter comparing legal edu-
cation around the world, and to Richard Sander for sharing with me the data from the
1995 National Study of Student Performance in the First Year of Law School.
