Recently Chicago made a provisional decision to join the ranks of law reviews like Harvard, Yale and Stanford by establishing a quasi-peer review system for article submissions. In Chicago Law Review Chutzpah, Stephan Bainbridge, William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of…
Archive for the ‘Law School News & Views’ Category
As the World Turns: Welcome to the Blogosphere Inside the Law School Scam
18
Aug
A “LawProf” Sampler Welcome to My Nightmare What does it mean to call law school a scam? Understanding the rage of recent law school graduates There has been a fair amount of speculation about an anonymous blogger who recently joined…
A Bit More on Senator Grassley And The ABA
17
Aug
I wrote yesterday about the most recent letter Senator Charles Grassley sent to the ABA seeking additional information about the organization’s oversight of law schools in regard to mounting graduate debt and poor job prospects. See my post Grassley to…
A Bit More on Senator Grassley And The ABA
17
Aug
I wrote yesterday about the most recent letter Senator Charles Grassley sent to the ABA seeking additional information about the organization’s oversight of law schools in regard to mounting graduate debt and poor job prospects. See my post Grassley to…
Welcome to the 2011-2012 Academic Year: The Law School Bubble
17
Aug
Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds on Instapundit. [JH] From: The Best Colleges
Grassley to ABA: I’m Not Going Away That Easily
16
Aug
Senator Charles Grassley is back, asking the ABA follow-up questions based on its response to his previous inquiry. See my posts, Senator Asks ABA Questions About Scholarships and Debt, and ABA Responds To Senator Grassley for details of the earlier…
"A picture is worth a thousand words" for illustrating law grads’ corporate sector career paths in the "New Normal"
16
Aug
The caption for the image, right, in Vanessa O’Connell’s WSJ story, Cut the Law Firms, Keep the Lawyers, reads “Dargie Anderson Bowersock had expected to go to a law firm—the “traditional path”— but now works in H-P’s legal department in…
Providing Legal Services to the "Masses" in the 21st Century, Part Three: A View from the Legal Academy
15
Aug
Marsha Mansfield and Louise G. Trube (both U of Wisconsin Law School) open their recent article, New Roles to Solve Old Problems: Lawyering for Ordinary People in Today’s Context [SSRN] (New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 2,…
