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I recently received an interesting question from one of my 2L colleagues: "Do I really want or need to practice law?" Naturally, t...

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In a forthcoming article in the Emory Law Review, Scott Harshbarger and I address some of the issues that have come out of the recent finan...

Early in 2009, we noted that the recession has exposed numerous deficiencies in the current legal education system. Accordingly, we argued ...

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From the Washington Post

Be Nobel Prize winning economist Gary Becker, or legal intellectual giant Judge Richard Posner. Since 2004, both Becker and Posner have bee...

Not according to the new research paper , "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Lawyers." From Economix : The paper tri...

At the New Republic, Judge Richard Posner has confessed how the current financial crisis has caused him to become more attuned to the ideas...

Hello everyone, I will be (one of) your new bloggers here at BBL. I have a particular interest in tax law and economics so I found the fol...

Never have I read a wire-report that has more inadvertently used a proper verb to describe the (ongoing and soon to worsen) economic mess t...

People who know your boy Ol' Fred know that he has been a bit of a Roubini in his outlook. I've been saying "the Inflation is ...

Peter Leeson , an economics professor at the University of Chicago and George Mason University, wrote this article on NPR concurrent with ...