In a recent piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Benjamin Barton, the Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, asserted that “every law school in America is under stress” after “a decade of turmoil.”

It is a familiar tale: Declining applications, decreased revenue, and, of course, rankings.

Although a “herd mentality” makes him skeptical about their willingness/ability to change, Barton proposes that law schools, “lower the price and debt levels, find smart ways to teach tech, [and] embrace new programs”

To read the full article, based on Barton’s book, Fixing Law Schools, see Chronicle .

(Crumbled airplane from Matt Dorfman for The Chronicle)