The Legal Academy
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Kevin L. Brady (Brigham Young University Idaho) has posted The Shove Without a Nudge: Banning the Internet in College Classrooms on SSRN. Here is the abstract: As laptops, and even cell phones, become increasingly powerful and ubiquitous, in-class Internet usage will continue to increase. Many schools have met increased surfing by switching off wireless networks
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Jana R. McCreary (Florida Coastal School of Law) has posted The Laptop-Free Zone (Valparaiso University Law Review, Vol. 43, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This new article, "The Laptop-Free Zone," addresses the hotly debated issue of laptops in law school classroom; those debates are ongoing on countless blogs, on NPR, in national newspapers,
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Dan Markel has opened a comments thread for reporting hiring information at Prawfs. Having chaired appointments committees at multiple institutions, I have sympathy for those who prefer this information not be public, but ultimately, I agree with my colleague Christine Hurt–more information is better! (Someone should build a nifty front end for a wiki that
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Matyas Bodig (University of Aberdeen – College of Arts and Social Sciences) has posted Legal Theory and Legal Doctrinal Scholarship on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The essay is an attempt to clarify some issues concerning the point of doing conceptual legal theory. It argues for a kind of reassessment of the relationship between conceptual
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Paul Campos (University of Colorado Law School) has posted Shame (Journal of Contemporary Legal issues, Vol. 17, 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Here are some observations drawn from nearly seventeen years spent as a legal academic, using a particular device: the depiction of several fictional yet all-too-familiar legal academic characters. With one exception
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William K.S. Wang (University of California, Hastings College of the Law) has posted The Restructuring of Legal Education Along Functional Lines (Journal of Contemporary Legal issues, Vol. 17, 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Currently, law schools tie together five quite distinct services in one package, offered to a limited number of students. These
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At TaxProf Blog, check out Seto on the Proposed Boycott of the U.S. News Rankings. Seto’s understanding of these issues is deep. See also his Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings.
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I was interviewed yesterday by the Chicago Tribune for this story. Assuming the Tribune story is accurate, Northwestern’s program will include one initial summer term (similar to that offered by the University of Michigan), four traditional semesters, plus intersession courses. In other words, the same units will be be reconfigured from the traditional three 8
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Michael Dorf reacts to Stephen Griffin’s remarks at the AALS mid-year conlaw meeting, summarizing Griffin as follows: As Griffin said, summarizing Larry Solum (about whose work Griffin has blogged at Balkinization) but not purporting to be stating his own views, given that the Constitution contains an amendment mechanism in Article V, there ought to be
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Over at Prawfs, Sam Kamin asks why legal academics continue to publish in law reviews. It seems to me that there are several reasons: One is that SSRN is not institutionally well suited for the role of permanent repository. SSRN is actually a relatively small private organization that does not, so far as I can