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31 Mar 2020, 4:30 am by Michael Simkovic
The Access Lex Institute is providing $5 million in total to fund an emergency relief fund for students at each of 200 law schools. [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]
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]
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]
15 Jan 2020, 1:15 pm by Michael Simkovic
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]
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]
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]
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]
7 Nov 2023, 1:00 am by Michael Simkovic
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]
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]
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]
11 Oct 2021, 1:08 pm by Michael Simkovic
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]
17 Dec 2019, 11:22 am by Michael Simkovic
Brian Leiter has an extremely helpful post about things that entry level candidates should think about when they receive a tenure track offer. [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]
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]
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]