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12 Jun 2015, 6:00 am by Michael Simkovic
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 by Michael Froomkin
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]
18 Oct 2023, 1:30 am by Michael Simkovic
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]
29 Nov 2016, 1:18 pm by Michael Simkovic
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]
25 Oct 2015, 3:40 pm by Michael Simkovic
Frank Pasquale responds to a very poorly researched editorial by The New York Times Editorial Board. [read post]
25 Sep 2018, 8:19 am by Michael Simkovic
A recent working paper by Caroline Hoxby (Stanford) suggests that the economic returns to online education (measured in terms of wage growth) may be too... [read post]
17 Nov 2017, 4:06 am by Michael Simkovic
Following up on my previous post, Republican Tax Hikes Target Education, Erin Rousseau, a neuroscience graduate student at MIT, writes in the New York Times:... [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 2:23 pm by Michael Simkovic
The Coronavirus has become a media sensation, receiving more press coverage and more general interest than the better known common Flu. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 7:37 pm by Michael Simkovic
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 by Michael Simkovic
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]
19 Dec 2018, 2:00 pm by Michael Simkovic
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]
16 Oct 2015, 11:01 am by Michael Simkovic
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]
10 Apr 2019, 5:00 am by Michael Simkovic
A rigorous new study by Ghazala Azmat and Rosa Ferrer finds that much of the difference in employment outcomes between male and female law firm... [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 1:03 pm by Michael Simkovic
Citation counts and other metrics can be a useful starting point for identifying scholarship and scholars that seem promising. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 6:45 am by Michael Simkovic
One of the most surprising and controversial findings from Timing Law School was that changes in law school graduating class size do not predict changes... [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 5:00 am by Michael Simkovic
The AALS today released a new report, Before the JD: Undergraduate Views on Law School, based on a survey with responses from 22,0000 college students... [read post]