Over the last few years, the Thomas Cooley School of Law has become something of a byword for what's wrong with American legal education, so it's fitting that it has become the first school to downsize by actually closing an entire campus: As with most...
Author: Paul Campos
A point sometimes made by defenders of the legal academic status quo is that while nominally tuition has gone up a lot, actual tuition increases have been much more moderate,.
Woof. Spoilers ahead. . . . apparently a Norwegian fan has pocketed nearly $1000 after having the foresight to lay down a bet that Suarez would bite an opponent at.
In the course of carrying out its secret mission as an engine of left-wing insurrection, the New York Times has put together a debate on whether its desirable for university presidents to have increasingly enormous sums of cash shoveled into their bank accounts, at a...
Stop saying stuff like this: Bill and Hillary have reportedly made more than $100m since they left the White House in 2001. Yet that didn't stop Hillary complaining to Diane.
Bernie Burk points to some ominous parallels between institutional reactions to overproduction of JD and PhD degrees. Burk's target is a recent report from an MLA task force, which concluded.
The undergraduate who had been writing poems about killing people showed up for his appointment in my office carrying a black canvas backpack. He was slim and dark-haired, his mouth torqued into an uneasy smile. I had spoken several times about his violent ramblings to...
It’s an article of faith among many progressives -- see several comments in this thread for example -- that the radical rise in tuition rates at public universities and law.
This is the first of what will probably be several posts about the extraordinary increases in law school tuition over the past half century (In this as in so many.
Hardened by years of battle in neighboring Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is routing the forces of a modern nation-state and gathering land with the ultimate goal of establishing an alternate form of governance, an Islamic caliphate. “This is not...
A California trial court judge has decided that children in the state have a constitutional right to be exposed to an equal percentage of bad teachers, and that the relevant.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor loses the primary election in his district to this guy. Apparently Cantor's primary sin in the eyes of the Tea Party was being "soft" on.