The Legal Academy
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Check out Spring Submission Guide for Law Reviews and Thoughts for Rising Prawfs by Dan Markel over at PrawfsBlawg. You can download the very useful submission guide prepared by Tony Sebok.
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One of the three talks I did at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington last week was for the new law professor’s section. There is a thread about my talk over at Prawf’s Blawg–How many drafts on SSRN?. I think the most interesting parts of my remarks focused on the implications of "disintermediation" for new…
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Brian Leiter has a thoughtful post on the possible effects of UC Irvine’s new law school on other California schools.
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There is a very nice article on Larry Sager (the new Dean at Texas) in the Houston Chronicle. A taste: UT-Austin’s starting pay for new faculty, averaging $125,000 annually, is on par with other top schools. But many rivals can afford to offer more generous perks, Sager said. For example, Steven Ratner, an expert in…
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Consider answer Michael Heise’s inquiry, Law School Climate for Empirical Legal Studies, over at Empirical Legal Studies: Various conversations at the recent CELS conference re-kindled my lingering interest in perceptions about the climate across law schools for empirical legal studies. With apologies to the many non-law school-based readers and for the admittedly parochial nature of…
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Check out Teaching Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors on Paul Caron’s Tax Prof blog–with links to many of the VAPs, Fellowships, and other Post-Doc like programs for aspiring law professors.
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Three cheers for the Northwestern University Law Review, which has announced its intetion to make the full content of the review available in open-access format on the Internet. Here is an excerpt from the post on their blog, Colloquy: Starting with the fourth issue of our ninety-ninth volume and moving forward, all of our content…
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Jack Balkin writes: One interesting feature of Harvard Law School’s first-year curriculum reform initiative is that, while it purports to make legal education more closely match the needs of first year law students, it moves against longer term trends in legal education that made the curriculum conform to the needs and interests of law professors.…
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Michael Madison comments on the idea that an ethical obligation to publish in open access venues may emerge: Larry [Solum] is right, but I think that there’s more to the story. Scholars aren’t going to give up the reputational benefits of publishing for prestige. An open access norm isn’t likely to stabilize, at least in…
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Check out What’s the Mission of Law Reviews? on Susan Crawford Blog. I was particularly interested in the following passage, which follow’s Crawford’s discussion of the Duke Law Journal’s open access policy: Duke’s editor pointed out that law professors with offers from his journal who profess to have a deep commitment to open access will…