McIntyre & Simkovic: Law Class Size Does Not Predict Changes In Financial...
Michael Simkovic (Seton Hall), Smaller or Larger Law Class Sizes Don’t Predict Changes in Financial Benefits of Law School: One of the most surprising and controversial findings from Timing Law School...
View ArticleMerritt: Hippocrates And Socrates — Professional Obligations To Educate The...
Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State), Hippocrates and Socrates: Professional Obligations to Educate the Next Generation, 50 Wake Forest L. Rev. ___ (2015): Do professionals have an ethical obligation to...
View ArticleTrajectory Of A Law Professor
Meera E. Deo (Thomas Jefferson), Trajectory of a Law Professor, 20 Mich. J. Race & L. 441 (2015): Women of color are already severely underrepresented in legal academia; as enrollment drops and...
View ArticleWisconsin Law Review Debate: Does Experiential Learning Improve J.D....
Jason W. Yackee (Associate Professor of Law, Wisconsin), Does Experiential Learning Improve JD Employment Outcomes?, 2015 Wis. L. Rev. 601 (blogged here): [T]here is no statistical relationship between...
View ArticleSymposium: The Role Of Incubator And Residency Programs In Legal Education
Symposium, The Role of Incubator and Residency Programs in Legal Education, 1 J. Experiential Learning 185-318 (2015) Fred Rooney (Touro), Incubator Development at Home and Abroad: Anecdotal Stories...
View ArticleYoon: Law Profs Continue To Publish After Tenure, But In Less Competitive...
Albert Yoon (Toronto), Academic Tenure, 13 J. Empirical Legal Stud. ___ (2016): In academia, a subset of faculty has tenure, which allows its beneficiaries to retain their professorships without...
View ArticleThe Ph.D. Rises In American Law Schools, 1960-2011: What Does It Mean For...
Justin McCrary (UC-Berkeley), Joy Milligan (UC-Berkeley) & James Cleith Phillips (UC-Berkeley), The Ph.D. Rises in American Law Schools, 1960-2011: What Does It Mean for Legal Education?, 65 J....
View ArticleDerek Muller, Victoria Schwartz & Maureen Weston Receive Pepperdine Faculty...
Congratulations to the recipients of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, announced by Dean Deanell Tacha at the 43rd Annual Pepperdine Law School Dinner last Saturday night: The award is...
View ArticleRabban: The Regrettable Underenforcement Of Incompetence As Cause To Dismiss...
David M. Rabban (Texas), The Regrettable Underenforcement of Incompetence as Cause to Dismiss Tenured Faculty, 91 Ind. L.J. 39 (2015): This essay asserts that the reluctance of universities to dismiss...
View ArticleLoPucki: Dawn Of The Discipline-Based Law Faculty
Lynn M. LoPucki (UCLA), Dawn of the Discipline-Based Law Faculty, 65 J. Legal Educ. 506 (2016): This Article reports on an empirical study of the prevalence of Ph.D.s on law faculties, the rate at...
View ArticlePasquale: The Unity Of Faculty Research, Service, And Teaching In Legal...
Frank A. Pasquale III (Maryland), Synergy and Tradition: The Unity of Research, Service, and Teaching in Legal Education, 40 J. Legal Prof. 25 (2015): Most non-profit law schools generate public goods...
View ArticleChodorow & Hackney: Post-Graduate Legal Training — The Case For Tax-Exempt...
Adam Chodorow (Arizona State) & Philip Hackney (LSU), Post-Graduate Legal Training: The Case for Tax-Exempt Programs, 65 J. Legal Educ. 463 (2016): The challenging job market for recent law school...
View Article2015 Google Law Review Rankings, Specialty Journals: The Ten Most-Cited...
Following up on last week's post on the 2015 Google Law Review Rankings: my Pepperdine colleague Rob Anderson has expanded his annual Google Law Review Rankings to include specialty, secondary, and...
View ArticleSSRN Tax Professor Rankings
SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database. Here...
View ArticleColumbia Symposium: Exploring Solutions To Persisting Discrimination In...
Symposium, The More Things Change ...: Exploring Solutions to Persisting Discrimination in Legal Academia, 31 Colum. J. Gender & L. 1-254 (2015): Melissa Hart (Colorado), The More Things Change...
View ArticleChilton & Posner: Is Legal Scholarship Politically Biased?
Adam S. Chilton (Chicago) & Eric A. Posner (Chicago), An Empirical Study of Political Bias in Legal Scholarship, 44 J. Legal Stud. 277 (2015): Law professors routinely accuse each other of making...
View ArticleA Statistical Evaluation Of Bar Exam Program Interventions
Scott Johns (Denver), Empirical Reflections: A Statistical Evaluation of Bar Exam Program Interventions, 54 U. Louisville L. Rev. 267 (2016): The bar exam seems like a formidable hurdle to many law...
View ArticleSimkovic & McIntyre: The Value Of A Law Degree By College Major: $29k/Year...
Michael Simkovic (Seton Hall) & Frank McIntyre (Rutgers), Value of a Law Degree by College Major: We estimate the increase in earnings from a law degree relative to a bachelor’s degree for...
View ArticleLaw Clerks Skew Liberal, Even Ones Hired By GOP Appointees
Adam Bonica (Stanford), Adam S. Chilton (Chicago), Jacob Goldin (Stanford), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern) & Maya Sen (Harvard), The Political Ideologies of Law Clerks and their Judges: We study the...
View ArticleArkansas Law School Dean Worried About ‘Harm’ From Professor’s FOIA Suit
Campus Reform, Arkansas Law School Dean Worried About ‘Harm’ From Professor’s FOIA Suit: Without waiting for the courts to rule in a pending FOIA lawsuit from a professor seeking access to admissions...
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