The Legal Academy
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Check out Belle’s Thoughts From A Former Anteater on the Chemerinsky Debacle.
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I have been asked to post an announcement on the Challis Chair of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. The position has been advertised in the Australian newspaper, and will appear soon in the THES and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here is a link to the University’s website. Here is a…
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The AALS Section on Insurance Law is launching a moderated listserv for our section members. It will be hosted at the University of Hawai‘i, and moderated by Hazel Beh (hazelb@hawai‘i.edu) and the current Chair, Jeff Stempel (jeff.stempel@unlv.edu). We hope to use it to promote academic discussion about insurance law and to share important news. By…
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Brian Leiter’s 2007 Scholarly Impact Rankings are now available.
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I recently did a post on a series of dissertation chapters posted on SSRN. This prompted the following email from Jody Madeira: I just wanted to thank you for an idea that should perhaps have been rather obvious to me before… A bit ago I saw that you had commented on dissertation chapters that another…
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Update: The Journal of Legal Analysis has moved to Oxford University Press. Follow this link for information. Harvard Law School has announced that it will publish the Journal of Legal Analysis, a generalist peer-reviewed law journal. Here is an excerpt from the law school website: “There are a lot of faculty-edited journals for subfields like…
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Who are the hedgehogs and who are foxes in the legal academy? My interest in this question has been peaked by a minor blogospheric eruption, started by Belle Lettre here: [W]ith respect to my academic career, is it a bad thing to be a dilettantish fox? I was formerly a CRT’er, keep my finger in…
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It is that time of year when aspiring legal academics begin to think about how to fill out the Association of American Law School’s FAR (Faculty Appointments Register) form. These one page forms are distributed to every member school & are used by many appointments committee’s as the initial screen for selecting interviewees at the…
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Check out Jeff Lipshaw’s Dispelling New Law Professor Angst over at PrawfsBlawg. Here is a taste: The AALS New Law Professor Workshop, just concluded, had segments that made it worth the price of admission. The session on Friday morning on learning theory was a breath of pedagogical fresh air. As my wife pointed out, a…
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Paul Caron has a post entitled Tax Prof Moves, detailing both entry-level and lateral moves among those who study tax. And Mary Dudziak has 2007 Entry-Level Hiring in Legal History (First Take) on the marvelous & inspiring Legal History Blog.