The Legal Academy
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Sam Bagenstos (from Wash U) has some very interesting comments on my post, Belle Lettre on "Packaging": Like you, I think the toolkit and the knack for interesting problems are key in entry-level hiring. (I guess, though, that I’d add a couple of things: (1) lots of law professors even at top schools don’t have…
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Another frank and interesting post from Belle Lettre, entitled The Perils of Packaging. The post discusses much of the career advice that the anonymous Belle has received from advisors at the LLM program at "Liberal Law School"–a big prestigious place with a liberal reputaton that we can infer from various hints is not Yale (which…
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The Clerkshop Notification Blog provides a clearinghouse for information about judicial clerkships–which judges have picked and filled their slots and which judges still have open positions. This information is quite important to the efficient functioning of the process. In the absence of information, students will inevitably delay decisions that should be made–to the disadvantage of…
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Be sure to check out Paul Caron’s The Long Tail of Legal Scholarship in the Yale L.J.’s Pocket Part. Here’s a snippet: Does the long tail theory apply to the market for legal scholarship? Data from Tom Smith’s ongoing research project, The Web of Law, paints legal scholarship as a hit-driven market, in contrast to…
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Check out The Future of Legal Scholarship at Yale’s Pocket Part. From the introduction: Legal scholars’ work has moved beyond law journals’ printed pages. This month, The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part features essays that discuss, celebrate, and critique the ways in which legal scholarship is changing. Professor Paul Caron describes how professors download articles…
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Syracuse University launches national collaborative institute to study the judiciary, politics, and the media Syracuse University has launched The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media (IJPM), a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary research institute devoted to the study of issues at the intersection of law, politics and the press. As a collaborative effort…
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Dave Hofmman’s post, Law Review Submissions, Final August Version, provides a forum for information on the the August Submission season.
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The most recent version of Lateral Moves by Law School Faculty 2006 by Dan Filler is available at Concurring Opinions
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Another excellent post from Belle Lettre, who is starting an LLM program at some fancy place. The post is The Second Time Around, The Coffee Tastes Better. A tiny taste: I am surprised to learn that after this week, there will be no more hand-holding. This LLM program is surprisingly more independent and self-directed. There…
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Paul Secunda has a post entitled To Have a Research Agenda, or Not to Have a Research Agenda: That is the Question at PrawfsBlawg. Here’s a taste: [R]esearch agendas should not be foisted upon any faculty and to do so was not only harmful to creative scholarship, but was actually counter to what we should…