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 supposed to set up the sober, evidence-based analysis to follow, even though it's often not...
Author: Paul Campos
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.
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 no major legislation was going to be passed during the remainder of the Obama presidency...
(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.
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.
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 we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were...
Oslo is dropping out of bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics, leaving Almaty, Kazakhstan and Beijing as the only remaining cities seeking to host the event. Why? One reason is.
Updated below. On Saturday, Michigan's beleaguered football coach Brady Hoke decided to start sophomore Shane Morris at quarterback against Minnesota, over fifth-year senior and long-time starter Devin Gardner. In the.