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9 Dec 2022, 3:00 am
One area of disagreement among law schools and between U.S. [read post]
8 Apr 2015, 1:16 am
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
Student loans are more difficult to discharge in bankruptcy than most consumer or business debts. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 3:15 am
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]
1 Apr 2015, 7:37 am
Recently, two criticisms have been leveled against law schools. [read post]
10 May 2015, 6:54 pm
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]
18 Apr 2019, 8:33 pm
In the United States, both Democratic and Republican politicians sometimes attempt to bolster their populist credibility by going after easy targets--attacking pharma companies, or doctors,... [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 5:44 pm
With the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Republican control of the White House and Senate, the Supreme Court will likely soon become more... [read post]
2 Nov 2023, 2:00 am
On average, real pay for law professors has plummeted in the last 10 years by 24 percent.* A large decline in real terms is also... [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 5:00 am
See here. [read post]
30 May 2020, 9:02 pm
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]
4 Jan 2017, 11:22 am
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
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]
8 Apr 2018, 1:00 pm
Professor Dynarski argues for Income Based Repayment as the default option here. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 4:00 am
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
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
Elisabeth de Fontenay at Duke argues that elite law firms' expertise in sophisticated corporate transactions is self-sustaining and resistant to competition. [read post]
16 Jun 2015, 10:16 pm
So how should our understanding of student loans apply to law students? [read post]
18 Apr 2017, 5:20 pm
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
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]
