Updated below Friend of LGM Steve Diamond has once again turned his attention to our blog: [Campos] argues in a recent post at the equally notorious website “Lawyers, Guns and Money” which Professor Campos uses as his home base (Guardian journo and Edward Snowden interviewer...
Author: Paul Campos
Resolved: As of this moment, Mike Trout has the most impressive resume of any 21-year-old major league player ever. Discuss.
This is the last in a three post series. Earlier installments are here and here. Perhaps the most central problem with the kind of analysis Simkovic and McIntyre are doing.
In an earlier post, I argue that The Economic Value of a Law Degree exaggerates the value of a degree to people enrolling in law school now by using a mean rather than a median figure, by excluding taxes, and most of all by failing...
The legal internets are atwitter with talk of a new paper which suggests that a law degree is worth a million dollars. It’s an interesting exercise in econometric advocacy, and.
Updated below Two weeks ago, Florida Coastal School of Law issued a press release: Florida Coastal School of Law has laid off about a dozen employees. The job cuts are.
The Wall Street Journal has a story today about law schools shrinking faculties via attrition, buyouts, and layoffs, in the face of the continuing slide in applicants (over the past three years total applicants to ABA schools have declined from 88,000 to around 59,000, and...
When we last reviewed his oeuvre here at LGM, Prof. Steve Diamond, a political scientist on the faculty of Santa Clara's law school, was arguing that people trying to reform.
The Zimmerman verdict.
I have a piece on California's illegal prison sterilization program. (I hadn't realized how horrendous the facts actually were in Buck v. Bell).
If you're stuck in a cab in Bangalore with Tom Friedman, you're probably going to end up hearing about how the key to competitiveness for American workers is more education..
Sorry . . . that should have read "67 people shot by well-armed Americans in Chicago." Not much of a story after all.