Paul Campos > Quotes

“The fact that law schools have played a key role in creating and perpetuating a legal system which at the same time features a massive oversupply of lawyers, and a scandalous lack of access to legal services.”
― Paul Campos, Don't Go To Law School (Unless): A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk

“currently, the federal government will loan any admitted student who isn’t already in default on an educational loan the full cost of attendance to attend any ABA law school – and that cost is determined by the school. In other words, a law school can charge literally anything it wants to”
― Paul Campos, Don't Go To Law School (Unless): A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk

“the federal government will loan any admitted student who isn’t already in default on an educational loan the full cost of attendance to attend any ABA law school – and that cost is determined by the school.”
― Paul Campos, Don't Go To Law School (Unless): A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk

“ABA regulations prohibit students from working more than 20 hours per week during law school”
― Paul Campos, Don't Go To Law School (Unless): A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk

“Consider too that to be eligible for these programs you must be enduring what the programs define as significant “financial hardship.” Do law schools really want to promote the idea that getting a law degree is likely to make many of their graduates eligible for what are in effect federal welfare programs?).”
― Paul Campos, Don't Go To Law School (Unless): A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk