Rechtsanwalt Dr. Alexander Hartmann

Eine neue Studie (PDF-Download) scheint den Bruch mit einigen liebgewonnenen "Gewissheiten" der US-Ausbildungskultur nahezulegen:Its advice thats been passed down through the ages, from generation to generation. Law is a profession that trades, the thinking goes, on prestige. Clients like prestigious names like Wachtell and Cravath; the wealthiest firms like names like Harvard, Yale and Chicago. Get into one of those schools, and up go your chances of going to a big firm, kicking tail, making partner and grabbing that brass ring. [...]

But is it true? In a new paper, UCLA law professor Richard Sander and Brooklyn law professor Jane Yakowitz argue no. Eliteness of the school you attended matters much less, they found, than your GPA.

The work is part of a continuing effort to examine preferences and law school, specifically, whether affirmative action actually hurts those its most supposed to benefit. Sander has previously argued that minority law students will often do better academically (and on the bar) if they attend a less-competitive school.Gegenläufige Entwicklung also zu Deutschland, wo seit Gründung der BLS und Einführung der universitären Schwerpunktbereiche die Bedeutung der Studien- und Examensfakultät in den Augen mancher Marktbeobachter steigt?