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[David Bernstein, June 23, 2007 at 10:28pm] Trackbacks
Update on the ABA and Law ProfessorTenure Requirements,

courtesy of the TaxProf blog. Basically, an ABA task force could not reach a consensus on the issue. My previous post on the subject can be found here.

Daryl Herbert (www):
Tenure means bad law professors are protected.

But not having tenure means good lawprofs are at the mercy of bad administrators.

And we all know administrators are the worst part of any campus.
6.24.2007 2:13am
Smokey:
Tenure might have been arguable back in the day when a professor had no other means to protect his/her free speech.

But, as they say, that was then and this is now.

Today there are unions [ACSA, etc.] that protect professor's free speech rights [and that's pretty much what tenure is about, right?]

There are plenty of reasons why tenure should be abolished.

Ward Churchill comes to mind...
6.24.2007 9:55pm

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