Academic & Scholarly News

The Two-Year Tuition Fallacy and Other Confusion in Legal Education Reform

08/24/13

Even the President has now weighed in about the cost of legal education, thus elevating the profile of the debate about the "dual crises" of legal education:  costs and job placement.

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Call for Papers: 2013 Conference on Public Pension Funds

08/05/13

Call for Papers – 2013 Conference on
Public Pension Funds

Sponsored
by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

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Another Myth of Consumer Law?

07/31/13

As the CFPB gears up to regulate arbitration clauses,
a timely article by Omri Ben-Shahar has been posted on ssrn.

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Real Bankruptcy Fraudsters of New Jersey?

07/29/13

I know what I'm going to start with the next time I teach bankruptcy crimes....  

The indictment is here.

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A counterintuitive thought on the value of a law degree

07/20/13

If the Simkovic & McIntyre analysis of the value of a law degree is correct, there are two somewhat counterintuitive implications.  First, law schools have been massively undercharging for tuition in the past. If what is now a $150k investment produces $1M increase in income, why are law schools permitting students to capture all of that benefit?

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The Million Dollar Law Degree and Right-Sizing Legal Education

07/19/13

Bankruptcy prof Mike Simkovic and labor economist Frank McIntyre have an interesting paper about the value of a law degree.

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MLEA at the University of Illinois

05/17/13

On October 11 & 12, the University of Illinois College of Law will host the 12th annual Midwestern Law & Economics Association conference. The event consists of law professors and economists presenting papers with varying degrees of law-and-economics content, ranging from empirical analyses and formal economic modeling to legal philosophy and doctrinal papers infused with economic thinking. Paper submissions are due by August 1 and should be submitted to me at rlawless-at-illinois-dot-edu.

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Adam Levitin awarded the Young Scholar's Medal of the American Law Institute

04/22/13

Congrats to Credit Slip’s Adam Levitin for winning a prestigious honor! Of course, this award is well deserved.

The American Law Institute announced today that Adam Levitin of Georgetown Law Center has been awarded its Young Scholar’s Medal.  ALI says that this honor is “designed to recognize early-career law professors whose work is relevant to the real world and has the potential to influence improvements in the law.”

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Commercial Law in the Legal Academy

04/13/13

Brian Leiter's been running a poll about what areas of law and legal study deserve more attention from the legal academy. I was rather surprised by the choices in the poll: areas that I've always thought are well-covered like family law are included, while commercial law isn't even on the list.

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