Yesterday I posted an interview with Kyle Graham, a Santa Clara law professor who has decided to forgo the tenure process, and instead remain on the faculty without the protections and privileges tenure affords. Graham's reasons for doing so are interestingly idiosyncratic: basically, he thinks...
Author: Paul Campos
Recently Kyle Graham, a professor on the tenure track at Santa Clara Law School, announced on his new blog that he had decided not to seek tenure, and would instead.
This was just brought to my attention. Not sure if serious, as the kids say on the Facebook: [I]t's a common journalistic practice to begin with an attention-getting anecdote that's.
Jeff Toobin has a piece in the New Yorker pointing out that increasingly stratified economics of the legal profession reflect larger social trends: In the legal world, the haves are doing better than fine. In 1985, average profits per partner in The American Lawyer’s list...
Berkeley law professor Steven Solomon has a curious piece in the NYT today on how and why the Thomas Jefferson School of Law managed to survive, for now, by working.
Last spring, Jon Chait pointed out that if the Senate flipped to the GOP in November, this would have no significant short-term legislative consequences (with the House under GOP control.
(I won't say the 19th century, because pedants will insist that ended on December 31, 1900.) This is a challenge for statistically-inclined LGMers. As of today, there are still six people alive with verified birthdates prior to 1900. All are women. Four are Americans, the...
Updated to include 2014 admissions data My article in the Atlantic on Infilaw's law school operations has elicited a response from Ken Randall, formerly dean at Alabama, and currently President.
Please take this into account when sentencing him for the crime.
Paul Krugman points out yet again why, as the annual deficit continues to shrink, "deficit hawks" remain undeterred by the spectacular inaccuracy of their predictions: But what about people who pay a lot of attention to the budget, the self-proclaimed deficit hawks? (Some of us...
It's well known that having more educational credentials correlates strongly with higher income. This correlation has led lots of people to make the common sense assumption that increasing the educational.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where.