Ideas from various observers. Mine: In real, inflation-adjusted terms, tuition at private American law schools has doubled over the past 20 years, tripled over the past 30, and quadrupled over the past 40. The rate of increase for resident tuition at public law schools has...
Author: Paul Campos
Noam Scheiber has an interesting piece in TNR on the apparently structural changes that continue to wrack the big money tip of the legal services pyramid. An under-discussed feature of.
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.
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.
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 I’m going to spend some time analyzing the authors’ claims. I’m going to proceed in...
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.
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 structure of American legal education were secretly attempting to limit legal education to white...
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).