Tushnet on IP Teaching Props
Rebecca Tushnet has posted Sight, Sound and Meaning: Teaching Intellectual Property with Audiovisual Materials, an article on the use of teaching props for intellectual property courses. Of course Rebecca also manages the Georgetown Intellectual Property Teaching Resources database, a fantastic…
LexBlog Interviews
Over at LexBlog, I had a two-part interview about blogging and the role of blogs in legal scholarship. See parts 1 and 2.
Teaching Contract Drafting
In February 2006, I spoke about teaching contract drafting at a symposium at Brooklyn Law School. Nearly 2 years later, I have finally posted the associated essay, entitled “Integrating Contract Drafting Skills and Doctrine.” It’s brief (6 pages) and breezy,…
Bloggership Conference Papers Finally Published
Back in April 2006, a first-rate group of law professor bloggers (and a few other bloggers) gathered for the Bloggership conference to discuss how blogs affected legal scholarship and our lives as law professors. My recap from the event. I…
Using Second Life as a Teaching Tool
The Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article on six professors who are using Second Life as a pedagogical tool. However, the article also contains a sidebar with some caveats about Second Life’s downsides, ranging from technical glitches to bandwidth…
Blogging, Scholarship and the Bench and Bar Panel Recap
On Monday, we held a panel discussion on campus entitled “Blogging, Scholarship and the Bench and Bar.” Panelists included Paul Butler, Cindy Cohn, Judge Michael Hawkins, Larry Solum and myself, and the conversation was led by Nancy Rogers and Leigh…
Legal Times on Law Professor Blogs
Margaret A. Schilt, Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere?, Legal Times, August 31, 2007. This is a good recap article on the state of law professor blogging. On a separate matter, check out the Legal Scholarship Blog….
“Working-Class Millionaires”
Gary Rivlin in the NYT has a terrific article entitled “In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich.” The article discusses how a few million dollars of net worth doesn’t go as far as they used to, especially in the…
Law Professor “Job Hopping”
National Law Journal: “More job hopping at schools.” This year, there was a lot of faculty movement at highly ranked law schools–a circumstance this article attributes to (1) Harvard’s decision to bring in new blood and reduce faculty-student ratios, and…
My Requirements for a Supervised Academic Paper
Students regularly ask me to supervise a paper of theirs. This blog post discusses my suggestions and requirements if you want me to supervise your paper. 1) At your earliest convenience, read Prof. Eugene Volokh’s book, Academic Legal Writing [Amazon…