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. ... Read full article
Call for Papers – 2013 Conference on Public Pension Funds Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland ... Read full article
As the CFPB gears up to regulate arbitration clauses, a timely article by Omri Ben-Shahar has been posted on ssrn. ... Read full article
I know what I'm going to start with the next time I teach bankruptcy crimes.... The indictment is here . ... Read full article
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 ... Read full article
Bankruptcy prof Mike Simkovic and labor economist Frank McIntyre have an interesting paper about the value of a law degree. ... Read full article
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 ... Read full article
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 ... Read full article
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 ... Read full article
Consumer financial education , disclosure , and defaults all dispensed with in my prior posts, shall we move on to “substantive” regulation, dare I even say “usury”? ... Read full article
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If financial education classes and lab-tested disclosures are unlikely to help consumers in their real-world financial decisions, what about field-tested targeted education/disclosure? Exciting work by Marianne Bertrand and Adair Morse shows that ... Read full article
Elizabeth Warren’s questioning of financial regulators at her first Senate Banking Committee hearing got a lot of attention for her pointed question about when was the last time any of their agencies had taken a large bank to trial. It was a telling ... Read full article
Credit Slips bloggers Jean Braucher and Melissa Jacoby have been elected to the American College of Bankruptcy . ... Read full article
My general level of curmudgeonality TM usually makes me reticent to repost notices about conferences and such. These sorts of blog posts strike me as useful as having me walk down the street with a sandwich board advertising the conference. ... Read full article
Separate from the question of whether we should have financial literacy education for law students, there's the question of what should be included. I'm curious what readers think is important. Comments are open. I'd merely ask that if your ... Read full article
NYU has created a bit of stir in legal education by announcing that it will start mandating a financial literacy course for all of its students. I think this is a fantastic move from a pedagogical angle, a career angle, and a public interest angle. ... Read full article
Although not always acknowledged expressly, exceptionalism is pervasive in bankruptcy scholarship. Some work makes no attempt to contexualize bankruptcy within the federal courts, apparently assuming its unique qualities (for example, the disinterest in ... Read full article
As regular Credit Slips readers know, our own Stephen Lubben has a Dealbook column over at this place called The New York Times . Now comes word that University of Colorado law professor Vic Fleischer has started a column at Dealbook on tax matters. ... Read full article
