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30 May 2020, 9:02 pm by Michael Simkovic
A recent article argues that legal clinics funded in the 1960s to help the poor obtain access to legal services helped reduce civil unrest and... [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 4:00 am by Michael Simkovic
Unemployment increased from 3.5 percent in February to 4.4 percent in March, according to the U.S. [read post]
7 May 2017, 5:47 am by Michael Simkovic
Every 6 to 7 years, professors are offered one semester or one year without teaching or administrative duties. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 11:22 am by Michael Simkovic
A partner in a prominent San-Francisco-Bay-area venture capital firm recently told me, “The tech sector is eating the world. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 10:01 pm by Michael Simkovic
In the era of Google Maps, instant language translation, and digital music libraries, law students still spend countless hours flipping pages to find the right... [read post]
18 Apr 2017, 5:20 pm by Michael Simkovic
Mark Hall and Glenn Cohen have extended Brian Leiter's approach to ranking faculty by scholarly citations (based on Sisk data) to the field of health... [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 4:10 am by Michael Simkovic
Statistician and data visualization expert Hans Rosling recently took the media to task for misleading readers and viewers using unrepresentative anecdotes and ignoring contradictory data.... [read post]
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]
8 Oct 2015, 2:16 pm by Michael Simkovic
Student loans are more difficult to discharge in bankruptcy than most consumer or business debts. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 3:15 am by Michael Simkovic
New research from Dan Schwarcz and Dion Farganis at Minnesota argues that providing students with practice problems and exercises that are similar to final exams... [read post]
10 May 2015, 6:54 pm by Michael Simkovic
There is a wide range of views about the benefits, costs, and appropriate use of conditional merit scholarships—scholarships that under their terms, will only be... [read post]
16 Jun 2015, 12:36 pm by Michael Simkovic
Tom Friedman's latest New York Times column uses the labor market for executive assistants and executive secretaries to illustrate dubious claims about credentialing and over-education.... [read post]
3 Aug 2021, 9:55 am by Michael Simkovic
In 2010 to 2013, the Wall Street Journal effectively blamed law schools for the economic fallout of the financial crisis and the Great Recession. [read post]
5 May 2016, 10:05 am by Michael Simkovic
Lawyers traditionally bill a specified hourly rate for the time they spend working on a case. [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]