Via Paul Caron at TaxProfBlog and the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, a proposal by Joshua Silverstein, law professor at Little Rock-Arkansas William Bowen School of Law, to eliminate the “C” in law school grading. Here is the SSRN abstract for “A Case for Grade Inflation in Legal Education,” forthcoming in University of San Francisco […]
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Law Professor Salaries
Paul Caron at TaxProf Blog provides a table of law professor salary data reported by a handful of schools to the annual survey request from the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT); in addition to those reported salary figures (assistant professor, tenured professor, summer stipend), there are links to individual salaries at a number of […]
Brian Tamanaha’s “Failing Law Schools”
Last week I had the pleasure of reading a pre-publication draft of Brian Tamanaha’s new book, Failing Law Schools, which has not yet been released but can be pre-ordered now. I found the book engrossing and its argument powerful. I read it in 2 days after receiving a copy, and I think it should be […]
Responding to Online Outlines
Many law professors are distressed by the proliferation of online course outlines and case briefs. Commercial outlines have been available for years. Now those students inclined to rely on such study tools have access to lower-cost alternatives. That’s not the problem. Rather it’s the existence of outlines that purport to represent how specific professors teach […]
Richard Fallon on Law Professor Amicus Briefs
An interesting essay, via Prawfs. If I were a law clerk, I would ignore the names of professors who are signatories but not authors of amicus briefs. In my experience, some of the professors who sign on to amicus briefs don’t even bother to skim the briefs filed in their name. Those who read the […]
Anis Shivani on University Presses
My Washington College of Law colleague Robert Tsai points me to an interesting Huffington Post article by Anis Shivani on new directions for university presses. I have a somewhat more critical take on this, in the sense of an interest in the economic and business models driving the presses as they move in different directions. […]
Query re University Administrative Bloat
CoConspirator Todd’s post on the growth of administrative staff at universities raises a further question for me. Considered as a public choice/incentives question, what are the rational incentives of university administrators regarding faculty tenure? We have had some interesting discussions here at VC on the policy considerations on tenure – I’ll weigh in on them […]
Financial Regulation Reform – AALS Call for Papers
By Kenneth Anderson on July 9, 2010 1:03 pm in Finance, Law Schools, Legal Professor, Legal Scholarship, Regulation
The American Association of Law Schools section on financial regulation is seeking paper proposals for the January meeting on all topics of financial regulation and regulatory reform. The deadline for proposal submissions is August 1, fast approaching; I have posted details below the fold, and you can also contact my colleague Anna Gelpern with any […]
Mallaby on Soros and the Pound, and Some Other Summer Reading in Philosophy and Economics
By Kenneth Anderson on June 7, 2010 10:01 am in Economy, Financial Crisis, Legal Professor, War and Armed Conflict
The Atlantic is running an excerpt from Sebastian Mallaby’s new book, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of New Elite, which is out on June 14. The excerpt covers the famous moment when George Soros broke the pound in 1992. (It was then that I went to work for him, as general […]
The Bernardine Dohrn of the early 20th century: The terrorist professor at U of Texas law school
By David Kopel on May 24, 2010 3:56 pm in Academia, Congress, Constitutional History, Counter-Terrorism Policy, Criminal Law, Economic LIberties, Education, Guns, History, Law Schools, Legal Professor, Militia, Rehabilitating Lochner
My DU colleague Thomas Russell, who used to teach at the University of Texas Law school, has a written a paper, available on SSRN, which urges the University of Texas Law School to rename Simkins Hall, a law and graduate male student dormitory named for William Stewart Simkins. Simkins taught equity, contracts, procedure, and related topics at UT for […]
Goodwin Liu on the Second Amendment
By David Kopel on February 25, 2010 8:58 pm in Congress, Constitutional Theory, Fourteenth Amendment, Guns, Judicial Nominations, Legal Professor
Boalt Hall Associate Dean Goodwin H. Liu has been nominated to serve on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Some readers and Senators may be interested in his viewpoint on Second Amendment and other constitutional issues related to firearms policy. So here’s an excerpt from his article Separation Anxiety: Congress, The Courts, And The Constitution, 91 Georgetown Law […]
Joseph Bottum Spots Eugene Volokh Changing the Culture
Instapundit points us in the direction of Joseph Bottum’s First Things blog post yesterday; also Althouse’s comment: [W]hile I was [at NYU Law School] I saw posters for a lecture this afternoon by Eugene Volokh on the structure of slippery-slope arguments. … the posters for Volokh’s talk read, as I remember: “Founder of The Volokh Conspiracy blog and […]
Information Asymmetries and the Agent Principal Problem, As Found in … The Coca Cola Kid
Is this the ‘Australian Sound’? My class is covering information asymmetries as transaction costs affecting pure Coase Theorem analysis, and we will soon come to classic information asymmetries found in agent – principal relationships. I am thinking of using this as a pedagogical tool. Consider Eric Roberts’ soliloquy on agent-principal relations, and the many ironies […]
The Rise of the Uncorporation
Congratulations to Larry Ribstein on his new book from OUP, The Rise of the Uncorporation. I somehow got a comp copy in the mail, just finished reading it, and it is terrific. A gracefully written essay on business law!(!!) It manages to meld together law, history of business and legal forms in business, law and […]
Kevin Jon Heller on Carl Schmitt and Nuremberg
Over at Opinio Juris, my co-blogger Kevin Jon Heller has a post on the German political theorist Carl Schmitt and the history behind his brush with a Nuremberg prosecution at the end of the Second World War. It is drawn from research for Kevin’s book on the Nuremberg trials; given the interest that law professors […]