Jason W. Yackee (Wisconsin), Does Experiential Learning Improve JD Employment Outcomes?: This short paper provides an empirical examination of the link between law school experiential (or “skills”) learning opportunities and JD employment outcomes. The current “law school crisis” poses a number of serious challenges to the legal academy, and how…

Following up on my previous posts: Two Phoenix Tenured Law Profs Say They Were Fired for Opposing Transfer Prevention Policies (June 5, 2013) Phoenix Law School Changes Its Name Amidst 48% Enrollment Decline, 35% Attrition Rate, Lawsuit by Two Fired Tenured Faculty (Nov. 5, 2013) The Law Student Transfer Market:…

Gregory Scott Crespi (SMU), Will the Income-Based Repayment Program Enable Law Schools to Continue to Provide ‘Harvard-Style’ Legal Education?, 67 SMU L. Rev. 51 (2014): Legal education provided in the prevailing “Harvard-style” now costs students on average between $160,000 and $250,000 for their three years of study, the precise amount…

New York Times: Why Judges Tilt to the Right, by Adam Liptak: Lawyers on average are much more liberal than the general population, a new study has found. [Adam Bonica (Stanford) & Maya Sen (Harvard), The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives…

Wall Street Journal, Airlines Try Signature Fragrances, but Not Everyone Is On Board: Beyoncé’s latest perfume is called Rise, “the scent of empowerment.” Lady Gaga, Pharrell Williams and Jennifer Aniston have signature scents, too. So does Delta Air Lines. Delta’s offering is Calm, an eau d’aeroport that it sprays in…

The American Lawyer: Applying to Top Law Schools Disserved Many in 2014, by Matt Leichter: [A]lthough the number of full-time applications predictably declined again at most law schools (7.6 percent), they conspicuously rose at many law schools at the top of U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings. Specifically, of…