That's a quote from an interview Al Roth gave to Marco della Cava, the USA Today reporter who wrote about the first kidney exchange between Israel and the UAE: “Better…
Mostly for publications in top-tier journals, though teaching, conference presentations, and administrative work matter too. So says this paper recently posted to SSRN: What Are We Paid For: The Determinants…
Which presumably is good news for a lot of schools that have been facing budget cuts and shortfalls. Paul Caron has a detailed breakdown of the data, but in brief…
In The National Review, Caleb Petit has a piece on The Fiscal Consequences of Banning Compensation To Organ Donors: Could lifting restrictions on organ sales help ease the burden of…
I've posted several times lately about recent scandals involving organ transplantation (see links below). This has, predictably and justifiably, prompted a federal investigation into the practices of the organizations and…
An upcoming conference at UVA will honor and explore the legacy and memory of my late colleague, the wonderful Fred Schauer. From the UVA website: An interdisciplinary and international group…
The Harvard Crimson has the story: It was November 2023, the Harvard Law Review was embroiled in bitter debates over a blog post that described the war in Gaza as…
Many Universities are belt-tightening (or worse) as a result of cuts at the federal and state level, changes in student interests, and more. One of the latest to announce changes…
It is axiomatic: When an industry begs government to regulate it, assume that it is seeking protection from threats to the status quo with which it is comfortable. The universities…