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9 Apr 2018, 4:30 am
Pepperdine’s law school recently made an error when submitting enrollment data to U.S. [read post]
10 Feb 2018, 8:56 am
Private firms often withhold information or contest scientific knowledge when public revelation could lead to costly regulations or liability. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 4:42 am
Frank McIntyre and I summarize Timing Law School in The Washington Post. [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 5:00 am
Many graduates of elite law schools work in large corporate law firms either initially or after a clerkship. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 11:22 am
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]
7 Sep 2010, 7:26 pm
Last week, Seton Hall’s Michael Simkovic and Davis Polk’s Benjamin Kaminetzky released a paper arguing that CDS pricing at the time of a credit event (such as a loan made in connection with an LBO) can – when combined with other market information about a company’s debt securities – provide important indicators of a company’s solvency at the time of that transaction. [read post]
16 Jul 2015, 7:34 am
A new empirical article by Tom Ginsburg and Thomas J. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 4:19 am
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]
7 Dec 2015, 11:21 am
January 26 – Michael Simkovic, Seton Hall Law School. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 5:25 pm
A recent New York Times editorial attacking law school as “a scam” was widely criticized because of its exaggerations and factual inaccuracies (here and here).... [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 4:52 am
Scott F. [read post]
5 Dec 2019, 8:38 am
The Financial Times recently published an excellent profile of Esther Duflo, a French economist who shared the Nobel Prize in Economics with two of her... [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 3:14 pm
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]
2 Oct 2021, 10:45 am
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]
21 Jul 2018, 9:59 am
I recently pointed out some factual problems with claims by Northwestern lecturer Mark A. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 10:00 pm
Steven Diamond and Patricia Cain discuss tradeoffs between online and hybrid legal education during the COVID pandemic and argue in favor of online based on... [read post]
18 May 2018, 1:00 am
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]
28 Jan 2020, 5:00 am
At Taxprof blog, Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine) covers a study by James Lindgren (Northwestern) about the religious beliefs and practices of law professors. [read post]
7 Apr 2015, 3:43 pm
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]
21 Aug 2017, 8:17 am
Vanderbilt Tax Professor Herwig Schlunk wants the federal government to tax university endowments, preferably out of existence. [read post]
