WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES DIFFERENCE MAKE - THE CHALLENGE FOR LEGAL-EDUCATION

As debates over the rob of affirmative action in legal education becom e more and more heated, the question of how to provide all law student s an equal-opportunity learning environment is the subject of much spe culation. Despite many years of attention to this issue, culminating i n the recent decision of the Fifth Circuit in the Hopwood case, to thi s day there remains amazingly little empirical work that actually docu ments what is happening in law school classrooms. This article present s findings from the first systematic observational study of law school teaching conducted across multiple law.