Alex Rodriguez to be banned for life? I haven't followed this very closely, but my understanding is that under the CBA the maximum punishment to which he's supposed to be liable is a 50-game suspension. (Update: EF Goldman explains in comments that Selig can invoke...
Author: Paul Campos
Here is the percentage of law school applicants who were admitted, over the last decade, to at least one ABA-accredited law school to which they applied, by year: 2004: 55.6%.
Pictured: Gee's immediate academic supervisor Not The Onion: *Grant: For each year from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2018, the university will provide Gee with an annual grant of.
I keep getting emails from people regarding the much-discussed Simkovic/McIntyre paper, so I thought it would be worth reiterating a few basic points: (more…)
Emmett Till in life and death Willie Reed On an August morning in 1955, Willie Reed was an 18-year-old sharecropper living in the Mississippi delta. While walking to a store,.
Mick Jagger is 70 years old today. The only Rolling Stones show I ever went to was at the old Silverdome outside Detroit in 1981. He was 38 then, which.
For interested parties who don't want to wade through the 300,000 words and 40,000 comments at ITLSS, or the much more concise summary provided by Don't Go to Law School (Unless), here's an interview I did with the Denver Post, suitable for the attention span...
Here's a puzzler for econometric analysis: Why are only 22 prospective students scheduled to enroll in Indiana Tech's inaugural law school class next month, when social science has proven that.
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.
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 real understanding of the question actually being asked. Here's a passage from a draft article...
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.