The Legal Academy
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Bill Ford has posted a wonderful series on "great moments in the history of ignorance and division" on Empirical Legal Studies. Here are the links: Great Moments in the History of Ignorance and Division I Great Moments in the History of Ignorance and Division II Great Moments in the History of Ignorance and Division III…
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There has been more good discussion of the issues discussed yesterday in Interdisciplinary Ignorance and the Legal Academics of the Future. Among the important posts: The Glass is Half Full by Frank Cross The Divide Still Divides by Gerry Rosenberg On Interdisciplinary Scholarship by Mark Graber Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship by Mark Tushnet Great Moments in…
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Belle Lettre on Moneylaw? Check out Belle Lettre Tries To Explain Herself, or "Just What Is an L.L.M. Anyway?!" Here is a taste: The LLM degree, or "Masters of Laws," is an advanced legal degree that is best explained to other grad students, lay people, and your immigrant parents as a "post doctoral." Of…
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Paul Edelman (Law & Mathematics, Vanderbilt) writes: I almost entered the fray after your dialogue with Sam Bagenstos on toolkits but your latest post in response to Frank Cross on interdisciplinarity has finally gotten me to write something. Your emphasis on teaching methods to prospective legal academics is, I think, exactly backwards. The first thing…
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Frank Cross of the University of Texas has a very nice post on Empirical Legal Studies entitled Interdisciplinary ignorance? Here is a taste: In 2000, Gerry Rosenberg wrote an article in the Green Bag that took legal academics to task for ignoring the research of political science. This article was fine, I suppose, though not…
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Orly Lobel has posted Canons of Legal Thought and Methodology: Structuring a Law Grad Doctoral Seminar over at Prawfs Blog. Here is the first paragraph of Lobel’s post: This Fall, the Graduate program at Harvard Law School introduced for the first time a first year doctoral Seminar in Legal Theory and Methodology. The idea is…
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Over at Prawsblawg, Mark Fenster has a post entitled Specialization in law school faculties responding to a comment by Kevin Heller on a post by Paul Horwitz. The original topic had to do with the sorting of entry-level candidates & the influence of rankings thereon, but I am interested in a side topic–the question whether…
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Responding to J.B. Ruhl’s The Hierarchy of Legal Scholarship, Jim Chen (really, it is Jim) has another great post on the hierarchy of legal scholarship. Here are his six categories: 1. Self-referential scholarship 2. Scholarship solely of interest to other law professors 3. Scholarship solely of interest to law review editors 4. Scholarship addressing lawyers,…
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J.B. Ruhl has a really great post on Jurisdynamics entitled The Hierarchy of Legal Scholarship. He ranks categories of scholarship from 0 (least significant) to 10 (most significant). Here are his categories: 0 – Blog posts 1 – Publication of what are essentially blog posts with footnotes: 2 – Doctrinal review of the state of…
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Brian Leiter’s contribution to Yale’s Pocket Part is Why Blogs Are Bad for Legal Scholarship. Here is a taste: Blogs, like markets, are hostage to the ignorance and irrationality of their most visible proprietors, as well as to that of their readers, and the costs of those cognitive limitations are greatest when blogs purport to…