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 weremeant 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 in 1951, first-year tuition was $600—$5082.07 in today’s money (according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s CPI inflation calculator). Today (with some additional compulsory payments) it is over $50,000. How could this have happened? Law schools were once noted for providing inexpensive education, what with large classes and no need for labs or equipment. At Columbia, hard as it is to believe today, the entire entering class of about 290 students was taught in an auditorium by five professors, one for each of the five subjects (torts, contracts, civil procedure, etc.). It is only a minor point, but that class had twelve women and today’s classes are half women, Acad. Quest. (2011) 24:181–184 DOI 10.1007/s12129-011-9224-0