Or maybe you don't. My favorite detail of the employment packages negotiated by people like Gee is that they end up not having to pay for any of the stuff that people usually use their salaries for, like housing and transportation and food and entertainment...
Author: Paul Campos
Along with crunching numbers regarding the law school mess I've done a good bit of "qualitative research" (also known as talking to actual human beings from time to time). The.
This WAPO story notes that applications to law school have declined sharply for the third straight year (they're going to total about 58,500 in this cycle, down from a high.
Mr. Obama rejected the notion of an expansive war on terrorism and instead articulated a narrower understanding of the mission for the United States. “Beyond Afghanistan, we must define our effort not as a boundless ‘global war on terror’ but rather as a series of...
Bill Henderson and Kyle McEntee have a couple of interesting articles regarding the ongoing crash in law school applications and enrollments, and the implications it has for law school budgets..
Craft brews would have better sales if they didn't taste so much like beer. But srsly, people who like to drink Bud Light just aren't going to like craft brews.
To what degree, if at all, should student evaluations and/or complaints be taken into account for the purposes of tenure or post-tenure review? What about judgments regarding a faculty member's "collegiality"? Consider this story about changing tenure standards at Brooklyn Law School. The Board of...
This Urban Institute report regarding wealth disparities and race/ethnicity is getting a lot of attention. Unfortunately, the report manipulates statistics to push a dubious conclusion, instead of emphasizing a progressive.
Are we safe yet?
Further thoughts on the relationship between violence as political theater and the social forces that enable it.
A fantastic bit of reporting from David Remnick.
I just saw on the Twitters that both the Bruins and the Red Sox have had their games tonight postponed, no doubt because the entire Boston area remains locked down..