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 top 5% earned 36% of all income and paid 58% of all taxes. Will even...
Author: Paul Campos
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.
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 semester Monday with 12 fewer employees after the administration cut $4.4 million from its budget...
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..
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 regret going to graduate school, but not, Ron Rosenbaum, because my doctorate ruined books and...
Real estate tycoon gives law school $55 million; school’s grads hope to get jobs as lawyers some day
Even in the grim context of contemporary American legal education Chapman University's law school has catastrophic employment numbers. Only 65 of the school's 178 2012 graduates purportedly had jobs as.
Brian Galle of Boston College is doing a survey of the budgets at several hundred US colleges and universities. His data cover the years 1999 through 2007, and are adjusted.
It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth. -- Veblen -- I started ITLSS two years ago this week, in part, because I was...
Last month I wrote about the situation at Florida Coastal School of Law. I've since learned some further details about what, according to various sources, has been going on at.
Forget it Jake -- it's Ohio. . . . I'm a bit surprised that some posters are taking the view that Tressel's willingness to flout NCAA rules (he was involved.