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8 Apr 2015, 1:16 am by Michael Simkovic
After my first post on employment definitions, a law school dean emailed me to suggest that perhaps the ABA felt it needed to be extra... [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 7:22 am by Michael Simkovic
Many legal educators believe that shrinking class sizes will help the students they do admit find higher paid work more easily and boost the value... [read post]
18 May 2020, 9:16 am by Michael Simkovic
International efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus have come at heavy economic cost. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 5:00 am by Michael Simkovic
Yale’s Federalist Society provided a platform on campus to an anti-gay group which has been identified by mainstream media organizations and the Southern Poverty Law... [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 5:00 am by Michael Simkovic
Many graduates of elite law schools work in large corporate law firms either initially or after a clerkship. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 11:22 am by Daniel Shaviro
Based admittedly on just superficial inquiry, Simkovic's work on these issues strikes me as plausible and well-reasoned, but I admittedly don't know enough to form a definite opinion.In reading The Knowledge Tax for our session, I thought it reasonable to accept the empirical conclusions for argument's sake (which again, is not to suggest skepticism about them), because the main issue presented by the paper concerns their further implications. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 4:19 am by Carole Silver
        While the scope of Simkovic’s analysis surely includes some LLM graduates, it also undoubtedly includes many people who were never international students in any field, much less international LLM students. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 5:25 pm by Michael Simkovic
A recent New York Times editorial attacking law school as “a scam” was widely criticized because of its exaggerations and factual inaccuracies (here and here).... [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 9:39 am by Michael Simkovic
In the NY Review of Books (recently republished online): Nazism was so horrifying and so barbaric that for many people in nations where authoritarianism is... [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 7:17 am by Michael Simkovic
Representative Judy Chu (D-CA) (Pasadena) recently introduced H.R. 2526, the Protecting Our Students by Terminating Graduate Rates that Add to Debt (POST GRAD) Act. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 10:44 am by Michael Simkovic
Many alarmist narratives suggest that federal student loans are going to lead to a fiscal crisis for the federal government unless loan limits are capped,... [read post]
5 Mar 2016, 12:51 pm by Michael Simkovic
That’s the question Frank McIntyre and I try to answer in Value of a law degree by College Major. [read post]
24 Aug 2015, 3:30 am by Michael Simkovic
Earlier this month, I charted the overwhelmingly negative press coverage of law schools and the legal profession over the last 5 years and discussed the... [read post]
26 Jul 2016, 10:57 am by Michael Simkovic
In 2015, Professor Benjamin Barton of the University of Tennessee estimated for CNN.com, and Business Insider that attorneys working in solo practice earn an average... [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 12:45 pm by Michael Simkovic
AccessLex Institute released a new report, Examining Grad PLUS: Value and Cost, showing the primary criticisms of the Grad PLUS loan program—unchecked rises in tuition... [read post]