Wall Street Journal, The Numbers Guy: Job Prospects for Law Grads? The Jury's Out, by Carl Bialik: Law students, lawsuits and law schools' own accrediting body have shed light on a troubling truth for freshly minted legal graduates: Some of the numbers about their predecessors' employment and pay are suspect....

There is a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new paper debuting on the list at #1: 1. [398 Downloads] Giving Useful Tax Planning Advice, by Heather M. Field (UC-Hastings) 2. [384 Downloads] Scriveners’ Errors, Drafting Errors, Operational Failures,...

New York Times, Capital Gains vs. Ordinary Income, by Uwe E. Reinhardt (Princeton University): In a column etitled Capital Gains, Ordinary Income and Shades of Gray, the Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw, who advises Mitt Romney in his presidential campaign, offers a fine teaching piece on the tenuous and often...

Gene R. Nichol Jr. (North Carolina), Rankings, Economic Challenge, and the Future of Legal Education, 61 J. Legal Educ. 345 (2012): This essay is based on the keynote address Nichol delivered at the annual ABA law deans meeting in 2010. There he claims, in brief: “I believe, given the economics,...