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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]
23 Aug 2023, 10:26 am by Michael Simkovic
In my previous discussion of the Supreme Court's affirmative action ban, I noted that: With a wink and a nod, the Supreme Court told universities... [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]
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]
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]
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]
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 Apr 2015, 3:43 pm by Michael Simkovic
Recently, The New York Times reported on law school and the legal profession based on hard data and peer reviewed research rather than anecdote and... [read post]
2 Oct 2021, 10:45 am by Michael Simkovic
Economists, sociologists, and public health researchers have long observed that more highly educated groups tend to be healthier and live longer than those that are... [read post]
18 May 2018, 1:00 am by Michael Simkovic
I recently wrote about the evolution of economics--and law & economics--from fields that focused on assumptions and priors to fields that emphasizes data, causal inference,... [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]
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]
7 Mar 2019, 3:14 pm by Michael Simkovic
Inside Higher Education reports that along with an executive order that would politicize federal funding for higher education and scientific research, President Trump may soon... [read post]