TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 11, 2022

A new study from two law professors identifies 25 law schools whose students “overperformed” on the bar exam. Among the group are two law schools in Tennessee: Belmont University College of Law, which comes in at number six, and Vanderbilt University Law School, which comes in at number 19, the ABA Journal reports. The study looks at bar results to identify schools that dramatically outperformed their predicted bar exam passage rates. The study also looks at why these schools are seeing success in this area despite “not spending extravagantly more resources.” Read the full study “The Secret Sauce: Examining Law Schools that Overperform on the Bar Exam” by University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law professor CJ Ryan and University of Iowa College of Law professor Derek T. Muller.