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...
Author: Paul Campos
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.
Updated below Erik's latest post regarding MOOCs and the very interesting discussion thread it generated raises a critical question: to what extent will technological innovations in the structure of higher education generate efficiencies that will be passed on to students, and to what extent will...
It's been an eventful week in the law school world. Two law schools have announced the immediate or imminent downsizing of their faculties, while another has laid off a dozen.
I'm very excited about having an 8:30 res at Dorsia this evening; and agonizing about what to order has somehow reminded me that several songs are now permanently intertwined in.