jaymdee

Where did that role fall in your career? What led up to you landing it and how did you feel about it at the time?

What regulatory issues did you have to deal with in order to run a “lottery” such as this? I remember listening to the freakonomics podcast years ago and they were describing how the U.S. Government made running such a venture difficult. Have things changed since then or were there things you had to do in order to comply with the legal requirements that made it harder? What laws would, if changed, make it easier to set up similar prize linked savings or similar ventures?

I love Shameless and find it both hilarious and enthralling. I'm particularly struck by how the show addresses such a delicate subject as poverty in a humorous way without mocking. The characters are portrayed as having this heroic resilience and black sense of humor at the shitty situations in which they find themselves. Is there as much thought put into this as there seems to be or am I just reading too much into things?

Professor, thank you for taking some of your time to do this. I am an admirer of yours and am very interested to see how this goes. I am curious to hear your thoughts on current law school enrollment rates and costs given the state of the legal job market for new law school graduates. Do you think law schools owe a duty to their applicants to stop greedily taking in every eager mind that applies despite the economic prospects of that decision? What would you tell someone considering applying to law school right now if their reasoning was that it would be a solid career move?

Fair point about paternalism, but by intentionally publishing misleading statistics (using only legal employment salaries for "average salary" but using all jobs for "% employed full-time, etc.), aren't some schools deliberately misleading potential applicants to turn a profit? My question was less about a duty to counsel potential applicants than it was about whether you think schools need to stop trying so hard to recruit all the students they can without regard to whether they'll ever be able to repay their debt and use their degree.