--- title: Is it time to start shutting down law schools? description: Here's the case for shutting down law schools canonical: https://time.com/3946171/end-law-school/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-06T16:00:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:39.734Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The End of Law School og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3946171/end-law-school/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The End of Law School twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The End of Law School by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 6, 2015 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 6, 2015 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Is it time to start shutting down law schools?**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-01/is-it-time-to-start-shutting-down-law-schools-) By Natalie Kitroeff in Bloomberg Business **2\.** [**One airline wants to make food and farm waste into jet fuel.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/01/united-flights-biofuel%5Fn%5F7705836.html) By Jenny Che in the Huffington Post **3\.** [**Here are five reasons America should fear the rising global middle class.**](http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature/5-reasons-america-should-fear-the-global-middle-class-13245?page=show) By Brenda M. Seaver in the National Interest **4\.** [**Forget merely securing Bitcoin. This tech can secure and encrypt any transaction on the web.**](http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/the-future-of-the-web-looks-a-lot-like-bitcoin) By Morgen E. Peck in IEEE Spectrum **5\.** [**For young girls, having a working mom could unlock future success.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/06/girls-working-moms-may-do-better-life.html) By Jesse Singal in the Science of Us  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3946171/end-law-school/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3946171/end-law-school/"},"headline":"The End of Law School","datePublished":"2015-07-06T16:00:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:39.734Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3946171/end-law-school/","keywords":["Innovation","Bitcoin","middle class","working moms"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3946171/end-law-school/","name":"The End of Law School"}}]}] ```