{"id":132609,"date":"2025-09-04T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/04\/law-school-applications-soar-once-again-thanks-to-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:35:30","slug":"law-school-applications-soar-once-again-thanks-to-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/04\/law-school-applications-soar-once-again-thanks-to-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Law School Applications Soar Once Again Thanks To Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m hearing much more from people who want to protect the environment. They want to protect civil liberties. They want to protect immigrants\u2019 rights. Students who want to fight back are saying, \u2018Law school is the way to do it.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Dean Erwin Chemerinsky<\/a> of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning the dramatic increase in law school applicants during Donald Trump\u2019s second presidency. According to LSAC, applicants surged by 18% since last year, the highest year-over-year increase since 2002, with more than 76,000 applicants vying for admission to law school.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Law School Applications Soar Once Again Thanks To Donald Trump<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m hearing much more from people who want to protect the environment. They want to protect civil liberties. They want to protect immigrants\u2019 rights. Students who want to fight back are saying, \u2018Law school is the way to do it.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Dean Erwin Chemerinsky<\/a> of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning the dramatic increase in law school applicants during Donald Trump\u2019s second presidency. According to LSAC, applicants surged by 18% since last year, the highest year-over-year increase since 2002, with more than 76,000 applicants vying for admission to law school.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I\u2019m hearing much more from people who want to protect the environment. They want to protect civil liberties. They want to protect immigrants\u2019 rights. Students who want to fight back are saying, \u2018Law school is the way to do it.\u2019 \u2014 Dean Erwin Chemerinsky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Staci-Zaretsky-N8zTKe.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}