Sarah Lawsky (UC Irvine) has compiled some useful charts (and follow the links therein for others) about the recently concluded rookie hiring season. As she notes, the charts are based on incomplete data; they also track only tenure-track hires across all law schools. However, what they do reveal is consistent with my imperssion that, as in the job market generally, it was a difficult year to get hired as a law professor.



My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…