Social Life of Law Review Articles Editors
I sent out my article to the law reviews a couple of weeks ago. Among other ding emails, I got a ding email from a journal at midnight on Saturday night and a ding email from a different journal at…
Accrediting the Accreditation Bodies
Interesting brawl emerging over the ABA’s recent initiative to enhance diversity as part of the law school accreditation requirements. Three groups have petitioned the US Department of Education asking that the ABA lose its power to accredit law schools, arguing…
Motion Denied for “Being Incomprehensible”
A pro se debtor files a motion to “discharge response to plaintiff’s response to defendant’s response opposing objection to discharge.” The court dismisses the motion for “being incomprehensible” and quotes some lines from Adam Sandler’s movie “Billy Madison” to punctuate…
Baby Blogs
It appears that the new status symbol for moms is a baby blog. Two examples from our friends Alex and Lara and Erin and Josh. My wife reads them regularly. But she doesn’t read my blogs, which (I must confess)…
“I Need to Get Tenure”
I’ve never actually seen the social science establishing this, but I’ve been told that the single biggest determinant of a student’s evaluation of a professor is the student’s estimate of his/her grade in the class. In practice, this does not…
Tenured Canadian Professor Fired for Posting Comments to RateMyProfessor.com
Professors joke about this all the time. We know that our job performance is influenced, in part, by how others perceive our teaching. Websites like RateMyProfessor.com help shape these perceptions, but they are very unreliable because they do not confirm…
Beer Theft
News item: Thieves Make Off With $26,000 of Beer. Location? Brewtown, of course! (more precisely, the greater Milwaukee metro area). The AP story helpfully gives the lowdown on the stolen items: – 384 24-packs of Miller Genuine Draft cans –…
Some Professors Don’t Like Student Email?
The NYT has a reactionary story today about professor-student email interactions. The subtext of the article is that some professors don’t like some of the emails they get from students: “At colleges and universities nationwide, e-mail has made professors much…
New Blog: Empirical Legal Studies
Congratulations to my colleague Jason Czarnezki on the launch of his new blog, the Empirical Legal Studies blog. According to its first post, “the ELS blog will advance productive and interdisciplinary discourse among empirical legal scholars.” Good luck!
Hurt on ABA’s Latest Diversity Initiative
At Concurring Opinions, Christine blogs on the latest ABA diversity admissions initiative. As she points out, critiques that the ABA’s efforts are illegal miss the point. She writes: “Putting aside debates as to whether affirmative action is good, bad, constitutional,…