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9 Sep 2017, 5:42 am by Michael Simkovic
The powerful Washington D.C. think tank New America Foundation, which has ties to the technology, finance, and aerospace industries, recently fired a researcher within days... [read post]
25 Aug 2017, 6:19 pm by Michael Simkovic
Professor Henderson finds that: "CEOs with legal expertise are effective at managing litigation risk by, in part, setting more risk-averse firm policies. [read post]
21 Aug 2017, 8:17 am by Michael Simkovic
Vanderbilt Tax Professor Herwig Schlunk wants the federal government to tax university endowments, preferably out of existence. [read post]
31 Jul 2017, 7:29 pm by Michael Simkovic
California is an extreme outlier in the extent to which it restricts entry into the legal profession compared to other U.S. jurisdictions. [read post]
24 Jul 2017, 10:00 am by Paul Caron
Following up on my previous post (links below): Michael Simkovic (USC), Is California’s Bar Examination Minimum Passing Score Anti-competitive? [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 12:05 pm by Paul Caron
Frank McIntyre (Rutgers) & Michael Simkovic (USC), Timing Law School: We investigate whether economic conditions at labor market entry predict long-term differences in law graduate earnings. [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 3:00 am by Michael Simkovic
Occupational licensing regimes can help markets function when those markets suffer from what Economist George Akerlof coined a “lemons” problem. [read post]
5 Jul 2017, 4:19 am by Michael Simkovic
The Wall Street Journal closed several of its blogs on Monday, including its Law Blog. [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 6:46 am by Michael Simkovic
Douglas County in rural Oregon recently shut its last public library rather than increase property taxes by around $6 per month per household. [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]
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]
23 Apr 2017, 7:17 pm by Michael Simkovic
Elisabeth de Fontenay at Duke argues that elite law firms' expertise in sophisticated corporate transactions is self-sustaining and resistant to competition. [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]
2 Apr 2017, 7:18 pm by Dan Rodriguez
Kudos to Michael Simkovic for spelling this out here. [read post]
2 Apr 2017, 5:36 pm by Michael Simkovic
New York Times reporter Elizabeth Olson recently complained that the Dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Law was suspended after attempting to slash... [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 4:47 pm by Michael Simkovic
Daniel Hemel and David Herzig argue in the New York Times that a Republican plan to replace a tax penalty paid by the uninsured under... [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 3:00 am by Michael Simkovic
How should researchers make tradeoffs between the costs of data collection, the speed of the analysis, the precision of the measurements, reproducibility by other researchers,... [read post]