Last night the Senate passed a bill to re-set student loan rates. The House is expected to accept this "compromise" measure (compromise being a term of art meaning "a GOP-backed measure acceptable to the Obama administration"). The new deal essentially jacks up student loan rates...
Author: Paul Campos
Atrios asks below: Would like your take on the problem with discussions of this sort being (almost) entirely dominated by people who attended relatively elite institutions and therefore have little.
Ideas from various observers. Mine: In real, inflation-adjusted terms, tuition at private American law schools has doubled over the past 20 years, tripled over the past 30, and quadrupled over.
Noam Scheiber has an interesting piece in TNR on the apparently structural changes that continue to wrack the big money tip of the legal services pyramid. An under-discussed feature of the ongoing economic crisis in legal hiring and the related dysfunctions of the legal education...
Updated below Friend of LGM Steve Diamond has once again turned his attention to our blog: [Campos] argues in a recent post at the equally notorious website “Lawyers, Guns and.
Resolved: As of this moment, Mike Trout has the most impressive resume of any 21-year-old major league player ever. Discuss.
This is the last in a three post series. Earlier installments are here and here. Perhaps the most central problem with the kind of analysis Simkovic and McIntyre are doing is inherent to any method that uses statistical correlations to try to prove causation. The...
In an earlier post, I argue that The Economic Value of a Law Degree exaggerates the value of a degree to people enrolling in law school now by using a.
The legal internets are atwitter with talk of a new paper which suggests that a law degree is worth a million dollars. It’s an interesting exercise in econometric advocacy, and.
Updated below Two weeks ago, Florida Coastal School of Law issued a press release: Florida Coastal School of Law has laid off about a dozen employees. The job cuts are across the board in the support staff services areas for the law school on Jacksonville’s...
The Wall Street Journal has a story today about law schools shrinking faculties via attrition, buyouts, and layoffs, in the face of the continuing slide in applicants (over the past.
When we last reviewed his oeuvre here at LGM, Prof. Steve Diamond, a political scientist on the faculty of Santa Clara's law school, was arguing that people trying to reform.