Report: UMass Law School Would Cost Up to $39 million

The University of Massachusetts' plan to create the state's first public law school is a "high-risk, low-reward proposition" that would cost taxpayers up to $39 million over the next seven years, according to a report commissioned by two private law schools. The 50-page report, issued Friday by Suffolk University Law School and New England School of Law, claims UMass officials have "dramatically underestimated" the costs of the proposed merger. A UMass spokesperson called the report "clearly tainted."

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