December 3, 2004
Enrollment Plunges at Japan's American-Style Law Schools
The 68 American-style law schools that opened in Japan this year are already in serious trouble.
Worried that the government is planning to make it more difficult for graduates to pass the bar exam, and hesitant to pay the new schools' high tuition, prospective students are shying away. Applications for next year have dropped by 50 percent or more.
The law schools are meant to provide the practical legal training that has been missing from existing graduate law programs. The
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