By October 2020, there were 36,802 enrollees from the applicant pool at 194 ABA-accredited law schools not in Puerto Rico. This is down 173 (-0.5 percent) from 36,975 in October 2019. La Verne, Thomas Jefferson, and Concordia no longer grace
Continue Reading 2020: Applications and Enrollments Flat
[The following post first appeared on this site on January 1, 2012. What it said then still applies today, mutatis mutandis. Thanks for reading the blog and have a prosperous 2021!]
Behold, the curse of a long memory. Last January
Continue Reading It’s 2021. Where’s My ‘Hyperinflationary Great Depression’?
On September 1, 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its employment projections for the next cycle, 2019-2029.
For 2019, the BLS’s Employment Projections program (EP program) estimates that there were 813,900 lawyer positions (as opposed to discrete lawyers)
Continue Reading Labor Dept.: 32,300 New Lawyer Jobs by 2029, Turnover of 24 Percent
…Appears on the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation’s blog. A quote:
Rebuilding the destroyed neighborhoods of Minneapolis requires visibly building community solidarity, something land-value tax districts and a community currency would promote.
Read the full article here.
Disclosure: I sit
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Discussions of law-school costs are incomplete if they do not account for discounts some students receive, usually merit scholarships paid for by their full-tuition-paying classmates. To analyze the phenomenon of discounting, I focus on the ABA’s 509 information reports’ scholarship
Continue Reading Full-Time Law Students Paying Full Tuition Fall by 2.2 Percentage Points
…Appears on the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation’s blog. Here’s a snippet.
Land value taxation should, in theory, raise total wages and greatly increase the housing supply; but people should be mobile too, even including nonresidents who come in to
Continue Reading Solving the ‘Affordable Housing’ Problem with Land Value Taxes
[The following post first appeared on this site on January 1, 2012. What it said then still applies today, mutatis mutandis. Thanks for reading the blog and have a prosperous 2020!]
Behold, the curse of a long memory. Last January
Continue Reading It’s 2020. Where’s My ‘Hyperinflationary Great Depression’? (And Where’s My Cyberpunk?)
Full-time tuition at private ABA-accredited law schools rose 1.5 percent before adjusting for inflation, according to my analysis of (mainly) data released by the ABA in December. I focus on private law school tuition because public law schools receive
Continue Reading 2019: Full-Time Private Law School Tuition Up 1.5 Percent, ABA Excludes Fees
By October 2019, there were 36,983 enrollees from the applicant pool at 197 ABA-accredited law schools not in Puerto Rico. This is down 67 (-0.2 percent) from 37,050 in October 2018. Three law schools, Valparaiso, Whittier, and Arizona Summit, appear
Continue Reading 2019: Law School Applications Fall 1 Percent, Enrollments Flat
…Appears on the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation’s Web blog.
I argue that the residential upzoning policies in the Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan won’t really lead to more affordable housing. Here’s a quote:
[The] Minneapolis 2040 plan does something that no other
Continue Reading The Minneapolis 2040 Plan Is Unlikely to Provide Affordable Housing
