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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]
12 May 2015, 9:47 am by Michael Simkovic
Critics of competitive scholarships tied to GPA or class rank claim that these scholarships are especially troubling when used by law schools, because the mandatory... [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]
21 Feb 2019, 5:00 am by Michael Simkovic
A French court recently ordered Swiss Bank UBS to pay a penalty of 4.5 billion Euros (equal to about $5.1 billion U.S. [read post]
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]
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]
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]
16 Jan 2020, 4:00 am by Michael Simkovic
Professor Lawrence Lessig recently sued The New York Times Company for defamation for incorrectly suggesting in a headline and lede that Lessig advocated soliciting donations... [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 12:09 pm by Michael Simkovic
As part of the CARE Act passed in March, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is working with private banks to make several hundred billion dollars... [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 7:50 pm by Michael Simkovic
Bloomberg reports on former Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Clinton's policy proposal for higher education. [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 4:47 pm by Michael Simkovic
Daniel Hemel and David Herzig argue in the New York Times that a Republican plan to replace a tax penalty paid by the uninsured under... [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 6:09 am by Michael Simkovic
Scholars Strategy Network's No Jargon: 13: The Misinformation Age https://overcast.fm/+Feqoo83GI Professor Brian Southwell explains why people tend to believe false information and discusses strategies for... [read post]
17 May 2018, 4:47 am by Michael Simkovic
Following up on my previous post, When do donor influence and ideology undermine academic integrity? [read post]