Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports

News and views about law school and law

  • The Final Tolling of (Tom) Bell on Baylor

    Here.

    Read more

  • For Whom (Tom) Bell Tolls, Again: University of Florida

    Here.

    Read more

  • Not Much Real News in the Dog Days of Summer…So Time for Fun with SSRN Downloads (as of June 1)

    From the June 1 data: Top 25 authors with most downloads in the last 12 months: 1.  Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard; Corporate, L&E:  14,748) 2.  Bernard Black (Texas; Corporate, L&E:  12,564) 3.  Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA; Corporate:  9,312) 4.  Cass Sunstein (Chicago; Constitutional, Public Law:  7,426) 5.  Mark Lemley (Stanford; Intellectual Property:  7,317) 6.  Brian Leiter (Texas;…

    Read more

  • Three More Lateral Hires for Virginia: Bagley, Brown-Nagin, and Collins

    In addition to hiring Gregory Mitchell (behavioral law & economics) from Florida State University (noted earlier), UVA has announced three more lateral hires with tenure:  Margo Bagley (intellectual property) from Emory University; Tomiko Brown-Nagin (legal history) from Washington University in St. Louis; and Michael Collins (federal courts) from Tulane University.  This has otherwise been a…

    Read more

  • For Whom (Tom) Bell Tolls: Baylor!

    Details here.  Some explaining needs to be done. MOVING TO THE FRONT from June 18:  more info here.

    Read more

  • “Yalies and Their Fake Scholarships”

    A graduate of Yale Law School who is now a law professor asked me to post the following observations (sent under the title, above): As the next faculty recruitment season begins in "quiet search" mode, I have come across a CV from yet another candidate who lists on his or her resume a "scholarship" from…

    Read more

  • Schwartz from Brooklyn to Berkeley

    Paul Schwartz, a leading expert on information law and privacy at Brooklyn Law School, has accepted a senior offer from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

    Read more

  • Triantis from Virginia to Harvard

    George Triantis (law & economics, corporate law) at the University of Virginia has accepted a senior offer from Harvard Law School. I’ll be posting next week a summary of gains and losses at the leading law schools over the last three years.

    Read more

  • The So-Called “New Legal Realism Project

    The Empirical Legal Studies blog is running a series of posts about what is called "The New Legal Realism Project," which is centered at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and which aims "to develop rigorous, genuinely interdisciplinary approaches to the empirical study of law."  As some commenters have already pointed out, it is not entirely…

    Read more

  • Glenn Reynolds, a.k.a., “Instapundit,” Reviewed

    His book Army of Davids, lauding bloggers like himself, is reviewed In The New Republic; an excerpt: Glenn Reynolds is an unlikely visionary. Before he emerged as the "InstaPundit," he was just a law professor at the University of Tennessee, writing on administrative law and the Second Amendment [for law reviews]…. These outlets, however, didn’t…

    Read more

  • Pointed Objections to the ABA’s Change in Reporting Requirements for LSAT Scores

    Sam Stonefield, Associate Dean for External Affairs and Professor of Law at Western New England College of Law, has kindly given me permission to share the powerful objections he has sent to the ABA regarding the recent decision to permit schools to report only the highest LSAT of multiple scores:  Download stonefield_letter.rtf.  The whole letter…

    Read more

  • ABA Changes LSAT Reporting Requirements: Only Highest Score Need Be Counted

    Blog Emperor Caron has the details.

    Read more

  • Everything You Ever (or Never) Wanted to Know about SSRN

    Here.

    Read more

  • San Diego Vacation

    There are many lovely things about living in Austin…but the relentless summer heat is not one of them!  In consequence, we like to flee for a bit during the summer to the place that is both easy to get to and has a perfect climate:  San Diego.  If anyone has advice about a nice hotel/resort…

    Read more

  • UC Riverside Makes Bid for a 5th UC System Law School

    The UC Riverside proposal is here.  The proposals by Riverside and UC Irvine were rebuffed a few years ago, but now UC Riverside is renewing the proposal.  Three of the four UC law schools are in Northern California; only one (UCLA) is in Southern California. 

    Read more

  • Modelling US News

    Who else, but Tom Bell!  He’s found some intriguing discrepancies…

    Read more

  • New Developments in Alternative Dispute Resolution

    UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION Case No. 6:05-cv-1430-Orl-31JGG AVISTA MANAGEMENT, INC., d/b/a Avista Plex, Inc., Plaintiff, -vs- WAUSAU UNDERWRITERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant. ______________________________________ ORDER This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff’s Motion to designate location of a Rule 30(b)(6) deposition (Doc. 105). Upon consideration of the Motion the latest…

    Read more

  • Congratulations to Brian Tamanaha…

    …who has been awarded the first Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney for his 2001 book A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society (OUP, 2001).  "The prize," according to the Institute, recognizes "an outstanding published work in the field of jurisprudence which…

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • UNC Law Prof Boger Named Dean at North Carolina

    The university news item is here.

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • Bell v. ABA…

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

    Read more

  • “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…

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • More Bell on U.S. News

    The latest here.

    Read more

  • 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.

    Read more

  • 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.

    Read more

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

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

    Read more

  • 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.

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • 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.

    Read more

  • 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.

    Read more

  • 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.

    Read more

  • 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.

    Read more

  • 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.

    Read more

  • 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,…

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • 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.

    Read more

  • 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.

    Read more

Subscribe via email

RSS Feed

Instagram

Tumblr

Categories

Archive

Designed with WordPress