HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Law Schools Still Have A Ways To Fall:

Legal work will continue to face increasing automation, and demand for traditional JD programs will come down even further. Law schools will have to respond much more dramatically than this to that fact. As is the case with higher education more generally, many middle tier schools may have to close up shop altogether. The schools that remain may have to experiment with a two year degree. Perhaps law schools will eventually disappear altogether as legal training becomes an undergraduate degree or apprenticeship programs grow. We cannot predict exactly how exactly legal education will look in thirty or forty years, but whatever happens it is clear that the market will force much larger changes than the ones we are currently witnessing.

Related: Will Faculty Soon Be Cleaning Law School Bathrooms? When I was in law school, the Yale janitors went on strike and we students cleaned our own dorm bathrooms. They were cleaner than when the unionized staff had the job.