The Legal Academy
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Check out Ken Anderson’s The ‘New Two Cultures’ of Legal Scholarship: The Humanities and Social Science (A Note to Joe Singer) on Opinio Juris. Here is a taste: Fifty years ago, in the late 1950s, C.P. Snow published that famous essay decrying the gap that had grown up in his day between the culture of…
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Josh Wright has posted Part V of his series on the Future of Law and Economics, which includes a reply from Henry Manne. Here is a taste of Manne: I really do not think that we should be bothering in law schools with either teaching or research that in some ways does no make for…
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Part Four of Josh Wright’s series on the Future of Law and Economics is now up. A taste: [T]here is a profitable opportunity for the production of L&E scholars who will produce, translate, and retail accessible scholarship. This does not necessarily mean informal scholarship. It includes theorists and econometricians who understand and are interested in…
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Congratulations to Randy Barnett (Georgetown), Richard Pildes (NYU), Richard Primus (Michigan), and Katherinve V.W. Stone (UCLA), who recieved Guggenheim Fellowships. Barnett and Primus are the first holders of the "Constitutional Studies" Fellowship. The full list of winners for 2008 is here. (Thanks to Brian Leiter for the link.)
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I am passing along the following communication from the Vanderbilt Law Review: It is the policy of the VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW to maintain approximately forty percent (five to seven articles) of our book space available for the fall 2008 submissions cycle. We recognize that an impression exists among many legal scholars that student-run journals intend…
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Michael Carrol recently wrote about two significant developments in open-access to academic work. Here is an excerpt from Carrol’s contribution to the cyberprof listserv: 1. Harvard. Yesterday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted in favor of a policy under which each faculty member agrees to grant to Harvard a non-exclusive license to make their…
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Lot’s of interesting material in Brian Leiter’s post on interdiciplinarity. Let me focus on just one point: Solum’s version of the evolution of interdisciplinary scholarship also attends entirely to intellectual forces, but as all Marxists and Posnerians know, it’s a mistake not to consider the material forces at work as well. Here are two that…
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My post of Friday entitled Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinarity, and the Future of the Legal Academy was prompted by Brian Tamanaha’s Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might be a Bad Idea (For Most Law Schools). For a collection of links see Belle Lettre’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know/Read on Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship and Craig…
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Introduction BrianTamanaha has a post entitled Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might be a Bad Idea (For Most Law Schools). Here are two passages: Interdisciplinary studies are currently the rage in legal academia. An increasing number of law schools are touting their interdisciplinary programs, which include offering courses from other academic disciplines (economics,…
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Over at Tax Prof Blog: Anonymous Law School Dean: Abolish Tenure Brian Baker (San Joaquin): Tie Tenure to Teaching Ben Barton (Tennessee): The Business School Case Method Ann Bartow (South Carolina): Gender Equity Derrick Bell (NYU): Law School, Like Law, Can Only Do So Much Doug Berman (Ohio State): Reengineer the 1L Curriculum David Bernstein…