Note: All dollar figures in this post have been converted to constant 2014 dollars. Yesterday I wrote about Greg Crespi’s paper regarding the financing what he refers to as “Harvard-style” legal education. Crespi describes this model: By this phrase, I am referring generically to the...
Author: Paul Campos
Greg Crespi, a law professor and economist at Southern Methodist University Law School, recently published a very interesting paper on the economics of the latest iterations of federal income-based repayment.
Law schools for the last twenty years have been testing the elasticity of demand for their product. As tuition has increased each year, outpacing even the rate of inflation, law.
In socialist regimes, the championship trophy is handed first to the captain of the team. This unthinking brute imagines that he and his team mates are responsible for the victory that has just been achieved, and his society reinforces this destructive fantasy through its public...
Night Will Fall is an HBO documentary about one aspect of the Holocaust. Specifically it's a documentary about the making of another documentary: German Concentration Camps: Factual Survey. GCCFS was.
Anyone interested in the law school crisis and the reform movements it has engendered ought to read this state of the (dis)union message from Esq. Never. Here's a brief excerpt.
[Th]he movie gives America something it’s lacked since the start of the war — a war hero on a truly national, cultural scale. Yes, we’ve learned the stories of Marcus Luttrell and others who’ve achieved great and heroic things, but with the success of this...
JFK campaigning in 1960. The kid with the gun looks very bored.
AKA the "hasn't he suffered enough?" defense, ably articulated this morning by California's senior senator: A top Senate Democrat defended David Petraeus on Sunday, saying the Justice Department erred in.
George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted in 2013 of the shooting death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, was arrested in Florida late Friday night on charges of aggravated assault with a weapon. . . Zimmerman is being held on $5,000 bond and has been...
This is the first of a projected series of posts on the economics of American higher education. “Civilization’s going to pieces,” broke out Tom violently. “I’ve gotten to be a.
In Harvard’s health care enrollment guide for 2015, the university said it “must respond to the national trend of rising health care costs, including some driven by health care reform,”.