High Costs and Misdemeanors

In 1981, when my eldest daughter entered the University of Texas School of Law, tuition was essentially free, which was, after all, the purpose of a state school and why she did not go to, say, Stanford. There was some sort of registration fee that set me back, as I recall, $200 a semester. Incidentally, the same was true ($400 a year) when my second daughter entered Baylor Medical School (private, but with tuition for residents as if it were a state school) in Houston. Today, tuition at UT Law is $29,640 for residents and $45,720 for nonresidents. Tuition at the Berkeley (Boalt Hall) and UCLA law schools, other state schools that were meant to be and once were essentially free, is even higher. Even private law schools were much less expensive years ago. When I entered Columbia Law School