Simkovic & McIntyre Review Tamanaha's Failing Law Schools

Michael Simkovic (Seton Hall Law School) & Frank McIntyre (Rutgers Business School), Populist Outrage, Reckless Empirics: A Review of Failing Law Schools (reviewing Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012)):

The authors of The Economic Value of a Law Degree ... focus[] on problems with empirical claims in Failing Law Schools regarding outcomes for law graduates and also regarding law faculty compensation. The review also discusses Professor Tamanaha's proposals for reform of legal education in light of economic theory and the empirical economics literature, and finds reasons to doubt that Tamanaha's proposed reforms will have the effects he predicts.

Other reviews of Failing Law Schools:

• Jennifer Bard (Texas Tech)
• Ray Campbell (Peking University School of Transnational Law)
• Jim Chen (Former Dean, Louisville)
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Ronald Den Otter (California Polytechnic State)
• Stephen Diamond (Santa Clara)
• Stanley Fish (Florida International)
• Scott Greenfield (here and here)
• Bill Henderson (Indiana)
• Paul Horwitz (Alabama)
• Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State)
• Orin Kerr (George Washington)
• Brian Leiter (Chicago)
• Andy Morriss (Alabama)
• Nancy Rapoport (UNLV)
• National Law Journal
• Philip Schrag (Georgetown)
• Robert Steinbuch (Arkansas-Little Rock)
• Washington Post