The cost of legal scholarship

David Segal’s latest NYT piece in his continuing series of articles on the (dys)functions of legal education features among other things some calculations regarding the exponential growth in both the amount of legal scholarship that’s being published by American law school faculty, and the cost of that scholarship to law students (very few of whom have much if any interest in law as an academic subject, as opposed to as a means of making a living).

I have an article here on how those calculations were made, and will have more thoughts shortly on what all this portends for the mess that is the current state of American legal education.