Professional Advice
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The Stanford Law disaster involving a FedSoc event with Judge Duncan
UPDATE: The Stanford President and Dean Martinez in the law school have now issued an appropriate apology for this fiasco, including an acknowledgment (unlike in Dean Martinez's letter to the SLS community) that Dean Steinbach's conduct was inappropriate. =======original post follows========== The video online gives a sense of the chaos and heckling which disrupted the…
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Levit & Rostron’s guide to submitting to law reviews…
…has been updated.
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A new “Creative Commons” license that permits users to “remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially”
Some academics are concerned; law professors should feel free to weigh in on the discussion in the comments at the link.
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Is US News an “authoritative” ranking of law schools?
I know this question will make readers of this blog laugh, even as they recognize the pernicious influence the USNews.com rankings have on legal education and the decisions of applicants. But I was struck when having lunch this past Spring with some talented LLM students from Japan and China that they seemed to assume the…
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Leading student-edited law reviews issue statement on new requirements for data and code transparency in empirical legal scholarship
Here. (Thanks to Andrew Granato for the pointer.)
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Florida lawyers take position in court that public university faculty curricula and classroom speech are “government speech,” so regulable by state
Those thinking about taking jobs in the Florida public university system will want to watch this case. If it makes it to SCOTUS, we may find out if Garcetti extends to faculty at public universities; if it does that will be the end of academic freedom at public universities.
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Some very odd behavior by student editors at the Iowa Law Review
Lawprof Ramsi Woodcock (Kentucky) reports his experience. Short version: he was late turning in the final version of his article, so the Law Review insisted they would publish the earlier version, over his objections! There are other twists and turns in this saga, but the student editors did not handle the situation properly. They can…
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Acadmic Freedom Alliance calls for an end to the use of mandatory “diversity” statements in hiring and promotion…
…as a violation of academic freedom. (Randall Kennedy [Harvard] was one of the drafters of the AFA statement.) We discussed this issue previously in connection with some related ABA proposals, as well as the recent AALS decision to encourage applicants to submit diversity statements.
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Law schools hiring in 2022-23 can announce their plans/needs…
…at the annual Prawfs thread, courtesy of Professor Lawsky.
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What are standard law school teaching loads these days?
Professor Jeff Sovern (St. John's) writes: I wonder whether schools that perform better on lists like the citation lists posted on this blog from time to time have lower requirements for the amount of teaching professors do and if so, how much. I am also curious to know what standard law school teaching expectations are…
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LSAC acquires “Law School Transparency [LST]”
Here. At a time when the LSAT is at risk of being displaced by the GRE, this was not a smart move, given LST's dubious history: e.g., here, here, or here.
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Rostron & Levit’s guide to submitting to law reviews: a new edition
Professors Rostron and Levit write: Dear Colleagues, We just updated our charts about law journal submissions, expedites, and rankings from different sources for the Spring 2022 submission season covering the 196 main journals of each law school. We have created hyperlinks for each law review to take you directly to the law review’s…
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Allegations of misconduct by Amy Wax in the classroom and towards students
The kind of conduct described here enjoys no protection from AAUP academic freedom principles, unlike offensive extramural speech. If these allegations are confirmed, Professor Wax may be in real trouble this time.
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More thoughts from Simon Lazarus (Yale Law ’67) on the latest developments at Yale Law School
Mr. Lazarus (whose earlier and widely noted remarks on the "Trap House Affair" are here) kindly shared his recent assessment of developments since (including the lawsuit noted previously): Download 12.1.2021 Trap House update (003). An excerpt: I write this update to assess several significant new developments. Of these, the most noted but not necessarily the…
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UIC’s John Marshall Law School should lose its accreditation if it continues with this “witch hunt” against a faculty member
Professor Andy Koppelman (Northwestern) comments at CHE (do read the full account): In January the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Law disgraced itself with its foolish persecution of Jason Kilborn, a professor who was accused of racism for asking students to address an ordinary hypothetical, of a kind they are likely to encounter…
David J. Gunkel «Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond» (MIT, 2023) Link:…