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17 May 2018, 4:47 am
Following up on my previous post, When do donor influence and ideology undermine academic integrity? The progressive activist group whose efforts forced George Mason to... [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 3:15 am
New research from Dan Schwarcz and Dion Farganis at Minnesota argues that providing students with practice problems and exercises that are similar to final exams... [read post]
5 May 2016, 10:05 am
Lawyers traditionally bill a specified hourly rate for the time they spend working on a case. This ideally incentivizes lawyers to work hard and improve... [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 12:11 pm
In a recent column, the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof confessed, “One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative... [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 7:37 am
Recently, two criticisms have been leveled against law schools. The first is an economic critique—law school is not worth it financially compared to a terminal... [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 6:23 pm
Some have claimed that deteriorating outcomes for recent law school graduates are a sign of permanent structural change in the legal industry and that these... [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 7:22 am
Many legal educators believe that shrinking class sizes will help the students they do admit find higher paid work more easily and boost the value... [read post]
14 May 2018, 6:02 am
Key takeaways Universities face serious threats to academic freedom from outside pressure groups Some Donors have made demands that can undermine university provision of unbiased,... [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 4:30 am
Pepperdine’s law school recently made an error when submitting enrollment data to U.S. News.com. Pepperdine contacted U.S. News promptly after uncovering the error and submitted... [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 10:39 am
Professor Paula Franzese of Seton Hall law school is something of a patron saint of law students. Widely known for her upbeat energy, kindness, and... [read post]
7 Apr 2015, 3:43 pm
Recently, The New York Times reported on law school and the legal profession based on hard data and peer reviewed research rather than anecdote and... [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 3:00 am
How should researchers make tradeoffs between the costs of data collection, the speed of the analysis, the precision of the measurements, reproducibility by other researchers,... [read post]
21 Aug 2017, 8:17 am
Vanderbilt Tax Professor Herwig Schlunk wants the federal government to tax university endowments, preferably out of existence. He writes: “In the best of all possible... [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 7:17 am
Representative Judy Chu (D-CA) (Pasadena) recently introduced H.R. 2526, the Protecting Our Students by Terminating Graduate Rates that Add to Debt (POST GRAD) Act. The... [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 5:25 pm
A recent New York Times editorial attacking law school as “a scam” was widely criticized because of its exaggerations and factual inaccuracies (here and here).... [read post]
1 Apr 2016, 8:31 am
This post contains figures illustrating data reported by the author in a New York Times Dealbook post. [read post]
24 Aug 2015, 3:30 am
Earlier this month, I charted the overwhelmingly negative press coverage of law schools and the legal profession over the last 5 years and discussed the... [read post]
21 Jul 2018, 9:59 am
I recently pointed out some factual problems with claims by Northwestern lecturer Mark A. Cohen. Cohen, writing in Forbes, claimed that faculty terminations at Vermont... [read post]
21 Jul 2018, 9:59 am
I recently pointed out some factual problems with claims by Northwestern lecturer Mark A. Cohen. Cohen, writing in Forbes, claimed that faculty terminations at Vermont... [read post]
8 Jun 2018, 7:50 am
Over the last several decades, both the cost and the quality of ABA approved law schools have increased. Faculty student ratios have fallen. Completion rates... [read post]
