Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports

News and views about law school and law

  • Oxford Offers Chair in Philosophy of Law to Les Green at York & Texas

    It gives me particular pleasure to announce that my esteemed part-time colleague Leslie Green, who has made major contributions to legal and political philosophy over the past two decades, has been elected to the Professorship of Philosophy of Law at Oxford University, which also includes a Fellowship at Balliol College.  The Professorship, a new statutory…

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  • UNC Law Prof Boger Named Dean at North Carolina

    The university news item is here.

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  • War Stories: A Successful Law Teaching Candidate Reflects on His Experience on the Job Market

    A newly minted law teacher, who will start teaching at a very good law school this fall, writes with the following interesting remarks about his experience on the teaching market this past year: Some of life’s more grueling experiences (serious illness, for example) are hard to describe without metaphor.  For me, the entry-level job market…

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  • Bell v. ABA…

    …with an eye to U.S. News of course!

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  • “Anonymous Law Firm”

    This site is extremely funny.  I especially enjoyed the firm’s approach to recruitment: Every year, thousands of lawyers leave their firms to pursue other opportunities, or realize they aren’t cut out for law firm work and decide to end their lives. Our firm is no exception, and to replace the fine employees we lose each…

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  • Jolls from Harvard to Yale

    Christine Jolls (behavioral law and economics) at Harvard Law School has accepted a senior offer from Yale Law School; she is the second tenured woman to move from Harvard to Yale this year, and third tenured woman hired by Yale this year. The YLS press release is here.  Is Jolls really the "co-founder" of behavioral…

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  • More Bell on U.S. News

    The latest here.

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  • McCaffery Named Interim Dean at USC

    Tax law and policy expert Edward McCaffery, a longtime member of the law faculty at the University of Southern California, has been named the Interim Dean for 2006-07.  USC’s search for a new permanent Dean will continue next academic year.

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  • Washburn Dean Honabach to be New Dean of Northern Kentucky

    Dennis Honabach, Dean of the law school at Washburn University in Kansas since 2001, will be the new Dean of the Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University.  The Washburn press release is here.

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  • More Scrutiny of the U.S. News Rankings…

    …courtesy of Tom Bell (Chapman):  here and here. UPDATE:  And one more!

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  • New Study of Placement in Law Teaching

    This newest study looked at which schools were most successful at placing their graduates in the "best" law teaching jobs.  The results are not significantly different from the results based on aggregating Larry Solum’s data on all placements, though there are some clearer lines to be drawn.

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  • New Paper: “Why Tolerate Religion?”

    I have posted a new paper–the subject of my ‘Or ‘Emet Lecture at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto this past March–on the subject:  "Why Tolerate Religion?"  You may download the working draft here.  Comments are welcome.  Here is the abstract: Religious toleration has long been the paradigm of the liberal ideal of…

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  • Tracking Changes to the U.S. News Ranking Criteria

    Tom Bell (Chapman) is keeping track here and here.  Administrators in particular may find this useful.

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  • Swaine from Wharton School to GW

    Edward Swaine (international law, antitrust, foreign relations law), an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, who also holds a secondary appointment in the Law School at Penn, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the law school at George Washington University, to start in the fall.

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  • Pildes Turns Down Harvard, To Remain at NYU

    Richard Pildes (constitutional law, voting rights) at New York University School of Law has declined the senior offer from Harvard Law School.

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  • Labor Law Expert Fischl from Miami to Connecticut

    Richard Michael Fischl (labor law, Critical Legal Studies), a longtime member of the law faculty at the University of Miami, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford.

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  • Penn Makes Bid for Yoo at Vanderbilt

    Christopher Yoo (law & technology, copyright, telecommunications law) at Vanderbilt University has received a senior offer from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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  • Meares from Chicago to Yale

    Tracey Meares (criminal law & procedure) at the University of Chicago Law School has accepted a senior offer from Yale Law School.  Meares’s former colleague and occasional co-author Dan Kahan (criminal law & procedure) moved from Chicago to Yale in 1999. Yale, which also hired Heather Gerken (election law, voting rights) from Harvard this year,…

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  • Congratulations UT Law Class of 2006!

    It’s been a pleasure and privilege to have had the opportunity to work with many of you during your time in the Law School. I’m sure I speak for all my colleagues in wishing you much professional success and personal happiness in the years ahead.  I look forward to seeing many of you at tomorrow’s…

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  • Top Producers of New Law Teachers 2003-2006

    Utilizing the data that Larry Solum has compiled for three years on where newly hired law teachers earned their first degree (here and here and here), I’ve compiled a list of the top 15 producers of new law teachers during this time period.  (Note:  Solum’s listings aren’t comprehensive, as some appointments do not get reported…

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  • Chicago Makes Bid for McAdams, Malani

    The University of Chicago Law School has offers outstanding to Richard McAdams (criminal law and procedure, law & social norms) at the University of Illinois and Anup Malani (health law, corporate law, law and economics) at the University of Virginia. UPDATE (5/19):  Malani has accepted the Chicago offer.

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  • Schachter, Brodie from Wisconsin to Stanford

    Jane Schachter and Juliet Brodie, both at the University of Wisconsin Law School, have accepted the senior offers from Stanford Law School.

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  • On Ann Althouse

    This philosophy graduate student is not, it appears, a fan of her blog. 

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  • Solum’s Entry-Level Hiring Report

    Your last chance to contribute until the end of summer is now.  We’ll be using this data to supplement data my RA collected about tenure-track faculty at the top fifty law schools during 2005-06, in order to see which schools place the most graduates at the best schools.  The top five (in order) won’t be…

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  • A Fairness Issue in How Law Schools Award Merit Aid

    Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s) raises an interesting and very real issue: The economic value of a law degree for graduates from elite law schools, and for top students from non-elite law schools, would seem to handily justify the [tuition] price. A law degree for these favored individuals is a ticket to $130,000+ starting salaries in…

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  • O’Rourke Named Dean at BU

    Maureen O’Rourke (intellectual property), Interim Dean at Boston University School of Law, has been named Dean.  The university press release is here.  (The reference at the end to my law school ranking is, shall we say, a bit misleading…but so it goes in press releases!)  O’Rourke was a finalist in our Dean Search, and was…

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  • St. Mary’s Juarez to be the New Dean at Denver

    Here is the university’s announcement (not yet on-line): Jose Roberto (Beto) Juarez Jr. will join the University on July 1st as dean of the Sturm College of Law. An accomplished scholar, lawyer and administrator, he is currently a law professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio. Beto has been at St.…

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  • Sager Named New Dean of University of Texas School of Law

    It gives me great pleasure to announce that my esteemed colleague and friend Lawrence Sager (constitutional law, jurisprudence), who joined us in 2002 from NYU, has been named the new Dean of the Law School here at UT Austin.  The university press release is here.  Most readers will probably know some bits of his scholarly…

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  • Another Lateral for Minnesota: Chantal Thomas from Fordham

    Chantal Thomas (international trade, international law) at Fordham Law School has accepted a senior offer from the University of Minnesota Law School.  Minnesota has had a busy year!

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  • Texas Dean Search

    Various correspondents have  inquired about our Dean Search here at UT.  I can report that the Search Committee has sent the names of the finalists to the President and Provost, and I am hopeful there will be an official announcement soon.

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  • Limitations of Citation Studies

    Informative article here.

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  • Eugene Volokh Fan Club Loses Another Member

    Here.  Admittedly, the club rosters may have been thinning since last year’s odd defense of the idea that gays "convert" nice straight folks, or his rush of enthusiasm for torture.  Also see the apt comments by Ann Bartow (South Carolina).  Very odd.

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  • More Fun with SSRN…the May Stats are In

    Here’s what everyone (or no one, as the case may be) has been waiting for:  the updated SSRN download stats for the start of May.  The ten most downloaded authors in the last 12 months were: 1.  Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard; corporate) (14,621) 2.  Bernard Black (Texas; corporate) (10,771) 3.  Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA; corporate) (8,986) 4. …

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  • Another Lateral Hire for Michigan: James Hines, Jr.

    James Hines, Jr., an expert on international taxation previously on the Business School faculty at Michigan, will now hold a joint appointment with the Law School and Economics Department there.  Professor Hines also had senior offers from Harvard Law School and from Oxford.   This appears to conclude what must surely be the busiest and most…

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  • Political and Legal Philosopher Waldron Declines Harvard Law School Offer

    Case in point.  Very funny. Jeremy Waldron (political and legal philosophy), whose move from Columbia to NYU we noted a few weeks ago, has now officially declined the outstanding senior offer he had from Harvard Law School.

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  • Cornell’s Simson Named New Dean at Case Western

    Gary Simson, an expert on constitutional law at Cornell University, has been appointed the new Dean of the law school at Case Western Reserve University.

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  • “Blogs as Scholarship” Conference at Harvard

    Various colleagues and readers have asked why I’m not participating in this conference at HLS.  Paul Caron kindly invited me, and while I thought at first I’d do it, I decided in the end that I was too busy and that I didn’t really want to attend a conference on what strikes me as a…

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  • Defense Department Monitoring Law School Activities! NYU Dean Speaks Out

    Dean Richard Revesz has issued the following strong statement regarding the unbelievable Defense Department surveillance of Law School activities, including at NYU: Recently released documents from the U.S. Department of Defense confirm prior media reports that, in the name of investigating terrorist threats, government agencies have monitored activities at law schools throughout the country, including…

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  • Three Finalists in Denver Dean Search

    They are:  Dean Martin Belsky from the University of Tulsa; Jim Chen from the University of Minnesota; and Jose Roberto (Beto) Juarez from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio.

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  • Jane Jacobs

    Cass Sunstein has a nice, short item about why her work is interesting for lawyers.

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