POTUS points out that the third year of law school is about as superfluous as Orly Taitz's dental degree: BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — President Barack Obama told a town hall crowd in Binghamton, New York, Friday that the way law is taught in America should change...
Author: Paul Campos
Paging Russell Jacoby, historian of contemporary American academia: Ivy Tech locations throughout the state began the process of cutting back on part-time professors’ hours in response to the federal health.
Update: When I ran the numbers for 2013-14 I found a total of seven cases of academic dismissal among the top 14 schools. Five of these were third year students..
If you were to provide an artistic critique or analysis of contemporary pornography, what would it be? Well, on the one hand, I am of course delighted that the fanatical puritan feminists of the anti-pornography crusade of the 1980s have been forced to eat dirt!...
Good grief. Also, the idea that Rose didn't have anything to do with "drugs" is fairly implausible.
Silicon Valley mogul opines: According to the latest 2012 IRS income-tax data, the top 1% of American taxpayers earned 20% of all income and paid 36% of all taxes. The.
From a reader: Dear Professor Campos, I saw your intermittent postings about American University, and you are a tad off the mark. It is worse there than you think. I am a rising 3L at American. Just for context: 90th percentile LSAT/3.9 UG GPA. Worst...
Matt Taibbi is shrill: In a way, America itself is violating the Truth in Lending Act. It's cheering millions of high school graduates toward college every year, feeding them into.
San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law joins Florida Coastal and Hamline as prominent recent admits into legal academia's ICU: The Thomas Jefferson School of Law will begin a new.
Since it's NCAA-bashing day here at LGM, I wanted to mention that the current well-deserved storm of vituperation being visited on the organization seems like a classic tipping point phenomenon. After all, the basics of the situation -- big time college football and men's basketball...
I don't know if there's much point in continuing to harp on this, but US News just published another ludicrous law school "ranking," in a story entitled Ten Law Degrees.
I missed this when it was published last spring. In this corner, we have the deeply embittered holder of a PhD in literature: Don’t do it. Just don’t. I deeply.