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12 Jun 2015, 6:00 am
The Department of Education has been overcharging low-risk professional school students for federal student loans (relative to the market rate) while keeping rates low for... [read post]
3 Aug 2021, 4:02 pm
And, like clockwork, here’s Michael Simkovic with a reply, Wall Street Journal blames law schools for COVID economy (Michael Simkovic), the core of which is the economist’s perennial question: compared to what? [read post]
10 Mar 2021, 5:25 am
The American Law Institute will award its Early Career Scholars Medal to Professors Ashley S. [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 1:30 am
My previous post presented data showing that law professor pay has declined 24 percent in real terms from 2013 to 2022 using figures from the... [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 1:18 pm
At a conference I recently attended, some law professors and administrators seemed willing to assume the worst about LLM and international JD programs.[1] They seemed... [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 2:23 pm
The Coronavirus has become a media sensation, receiving more press coverage and more general interest than the better known common Flu. [read post]
7 Nov 2023, 1:00 am
My previous posts have documented a very large 24 percent decline in real pay for law professors over the last decade, from 2013 to 2022... [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 2:00 pm
In a thought provoking essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Professor Samuel Moyn argues that law schools' focus on judge made law in general,... [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 1:48 pm
Kathleen Engel (Suffolk), Jonathan Glater (U.C. [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 1:08 pm
Three renowned labor economists, David Card (Berkeley), Joshua Angrist (MIT) and Guido Imbens (Stanford Business School) shared the Nobel prize in economics for their pioneering... [read post]
12 May 2015, 9:47 am
Critics of competitive scholarships tied to GPA or class rank claim that these scholarships are especially troubling when used by law schools, because the mandatory... [read post]
18 Oct 2023, 1:30 am
Nationally, pay for law professors has plummeted by more than 30 percent in real terms since 2013 according to data from the Department of Labor... [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 1:03 pm
Citation counts and other metrics can be a useful starting point for identifying scholarship and scholars that seem promising. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 4:00 am
Higher Education could soon become substantially more expensive to finance. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 1:15 pm
Pro-market, a blog at the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, recently published a retrospective by Robert Van Horn discussing... [read post]
5 Aug 2021, 4:00 am
In my last post, I discussed problems with WSJ coverage of law schools. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 7:37 pm
The Law School Admission Council (LSAC)--the non-profit organization which develops and administers the Law School Admission Test (LSAT)--recently issued a press release disputing claims by... [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 2:11 pm
The advocacy group UnKoch my campus, which seeks to promote academic freedom and integrity by limiting donor control over university research, has sued George Mason... [read post]
25 Oct 2015, 3:40 pm
Frank Pasquale responds to a very poorly researched editorial by The New York Times Editorial Board. [read post]
16 Oct 2015, 11:01 am
The Wall Street Journal reports that a Federal District Court recently dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Florida Coastal School of Law defrauded its students through... [read post]
