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626882http://www.feedburner.comWhere to Go to Law School to Work at the Vault Super-Elite Law Firms on the Two Coaststag:typepad.com,2003:post-569096672008-10-13T04:37:33-07:002008-10-13T12:23:55Z2008-10-13T11:37:33ZNew study here. Because of the geographic bias in this sample, we'll put together another study of where other top Vault firms are hiring later in the year.Brian LeiterRankingsThe Financial Crisis May Mean an Increase in Applications to Top Law Schoolstag:typepad.com,2003:post-568813772008-10-12T09:14:09-07:002008-10-12T16:14:34Z2008-10-12T16:14:09ZThe anecdote in this story is, I suspect, representative of a wider trend: Wall Street recruiters have canceled or postponed visits to elite universities like Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, citing the turmoil in the markets. “Jobs are being taken down...Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestWhy So Few Republicans in the Academy?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-568188612008-10-10T09:50:22-07:002008-10-10T16:50:37Z2008-10-10T16:50:22ZMaybe this is why. And it's not just the academy, but anywhere there are educated professionals, as Mr. Brooks suggests. An hypothesis perhaps worth entertaining.Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestBlogging Scholarly Events at a Law Schooltag:typepad.com,2003:post-567870632008-10-09T16:04:33-07:002008-10-09T23:09:38Z2008-10-09T23:04:33ZWe're trying a new experiment on the University of Chicago Faculty Blog, inviting select students to 'blog' about workshops and intellectual events at the Law School. This is an effort to stimulate a wider scholarly discussion and also give others--prospective...Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestArchitecture buffs may enjoy this story...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-567118052008-10-09T07:18:00-07:002008-10-09T20:02:21Z2008-10-09T14:18:00Z...about the redesign of the University of Chicago Law School.Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestLaw Schools Often Change Buildings...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-567325532008-10-08T14:08:43-07:002008-10-08T21:09:24Z2008-10-08T21:08:43Z...but less often do they change cities, but that's what Campbell in North Carolina is doing, moving to Raleigh.Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestLaw and Philosophy Fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School for 2009-10tag:typepad.com,2003:post-566738252008-10-07T12:04:08-07:002008-10-08T13:33:05Z2008-10-07T19:04:08ZOnce again, Chicago will be hosting a Law and Philosophy Fellow. (You can read about this year's Fellow here.) You can access the ad by searching under Law School positions on this site; here is the full text of the...Brian LeiterJurisprudenceHarvard Law Faculty of 1970: Innovators or "Mere" Contributors to Legal Thought?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-565597092008-10-06T03:50:00-07:002008-10-06T10:50:19Z2008-10-06T10:50:00ZIn response to the earlier posting, reader David Warrington kindly sends along a link to the Harvard Law School faculty of 1970. Of course, this was still the era when the great 'treatise writer' reigned supreme, and the shelf-life of...Brian LeiterFaculty NewsFunny Law Faculty Website of the Week: Steven Bradford (Nebraska)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-565552252008-10-04T14:49:00-07:002008-10-04T21:49:38Z2008-10-04T21:49:00ZHere.Brian LeiterLegal HumorYale Daily News Gazes at Its Navel...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-563016632008-10-03T03:45:00-07:002008-10-03T10:45:32Z2008-10-03T10:45:00Z...more precisely its law school's navel: here, here and here. For an earlier blog posting on the subject, see here. Let us hope that the second story misrepresents Judge Calabresi: Calabresi said there are two kinds of scholars. There are...Brian LeiterFaculty NewsA Clear Explanation of the Current Financial Crisis and a Proposed Solutiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-564430552008-10-02T09:06:36-07:002008-10-04T22:44:44Z2008-10-02T16:06:36ZFrom Richard Posner. This is really quite lucid, and his final proposal is closer to what many other economists (e.g., Krugman) have proposed. UPDATE: Jeffrey Gordon (Columbia Law School) writes: I think Posner's approach of directly infusing capital into the...Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestSt. Thomas (Minnesota) Would Have Been a Top Performer in the Rogers Williams Scholarly Productivity Studytag:typepad.com,2003:post-564010812008-10-02T01:19:00-07:002008-10-02T08:19:23Z2008-10-02T08:19:00ZProfessor Rob Vischer (St. Thomas-Minneapolis) writes, regarding the Roger Williams productivity study, that it, only included AALS member schools, and since St. Thomas is so new that it has not yet been admitted to AALS, we were not included. Our...Brian LeiterRankingsEmory's Perry to Take Up Half-Time Post at San Diego Starting in 2009tag:typepad.com,2003:post-563582172008-10-01T05:15:00-07:002008-10-01T12:15:35Z2008-10-01T12:15:00ZMichael Perry, a leading figure in constitutional law and theory, law and religion, and human rights, who holds one of the distinguished Woodruff Chairs at Emory University, will take up a half-time post at the University of San Diego starting...Brian LeiterFaculty NewsIntroducing Experimental Philosophytag:typepad.com,2003:post-563422112008-09-30T12:16:36-07:002008-09-30T19:16:59Z2008-09-30T19:16:36Z"Experimental philosophy," as it is known, is one of the most exciting developments in the field of philosophy in a long time, one that promises substantive and methodological changes to philosophy that may be surprising to many legal scholars--and of...Brian LeiterOf Academic Interest"Law Professors for McCain" and "Law Professors Against Palin"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-562749112008-09-29T11:32:02-07:002008-09-29T18:32:35Z2008-09-29T18:32:02ZIn the former camp (via Professor David Bernstein of George Mason), here's a complete list. As Professor Bernstein notes, no Chicago professors, which does not surprise me. I know of only one colleague who definitely supports McCain (entirely for tax...Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestHarvard Law School to Adopt Pass-Fail Grading System Like Yale and Stanfordtag:typepad.com,2003:post-561814762008-09-26T12:01:08-07:002008-09-26T19:01:23Z2008-09-26T19:01:08ZAn HLS student has just forwarded me the e-mail from Dean Kagan, which reads in pertinent part: I am writing to let you know that the faculty decided yesterday to move to a grading system with fewer classifications than we...Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestNo Bailout Needed, Turn the Problem Over to the FHAtag:typepad.com,2003:post-561705302008-09-26T08:17:07-07:002008-09-26T15:17:27Z2008-09-26T15:17:07ZRobert Hockett (Cornell) explains.Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestA New Low in "Gaming" the US News Rankings?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-561381342008-09-25T12:50:48-07:002008-09-26T18:26:39Z2008-09-25T19:50:48ZBill Henderson (Indiana) comments on Michigan's new admissions policy observing that "an elite law school sets a new low in our obsession of form over substances." Blog Emperor Caron draws a similar conclusion, and notes that Georgetown is doing almost...Brian LeiterRankingsUpdate on the Lawsuit by Former Faculty Against Ave Maria and Tom Monaghantag:typepad.com,2003:post-561284742008-09-25T09:32:22-07:002008-09-25T16:34:03Z2008-09-25T16:32:22ZNothing like discovery to increase the likelihood of settlement! (For background, see here.)Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestIn the Market for Junior Laterals?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-561204642008-09-25T06:47:13-07:002008-09-25T14:09:40Z2008-09-25T13:47:13ZI have a very strong candidate (currently on tenure-track), with published work and work-in-progress (mostly in constitutional law area), plus teaching experience in a variety of (non-constitutiional) bread-and-butter courses (both first-year and upper-level). S/he has several high-profile references. No geographic...Brian LeiterSJD Programs: Worth It for a US JD?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-549449242008-09-24T02:55:00-07:002008-09-24T13:59:14Z2008-09-24T09:55:00ZAn aspiring law professor writes: I'm a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, generally interested in the academic teaching market, and a fan of your blog. To the extent you have not covered this issue on your blog in the...Brian LeiterProfessional AdviceStudent AdviceThe More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Sametag:typepad.com,2003:post-559981562008-09-22T16:07:56-07:002008-09-22T23:10:41Z2008-09-22T23:07:56ZFrom the 1973 Blau-Marguiles survey of law schools Deans, the top five law schools: 1. Harvard University 2. Yale University 3. Columbia University 3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 5. University of Chicago From the 1974-75 Blau-Marguiles survey of law...Brian LeiterRankingsThe End of American Capitalism, Law Professor Versiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-559182382008-09-21T13:14:00-07:002008-09-22T18:41:20Z2008-09-21T20:14:00ZA German philosopher of the 19th-century, whose name now escapes me, once observed that in capitalist societies, "The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." Events over the last...Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestThe Five Stages Not of Confronting Death...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-558438102008-09-20T06:43:00-07:002008-09-20T13:43:39Z2008-09-20T13:43:00Z...but realizing that Sarah Palin might be Vice-President of the United States. (One might, of course, think the same applies to the guy on the top of the ticket...or maybe Professor Muller started with 'abject terror' on that one!)Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestHiring Faculty Couplestag:typepad.com,2003:post-554698082008-09-19T02:57:00-07:002008-09-19T09:57:30Z2008-09-19T09:57:00ZStory here.Brian LeiterFaculty NewsIn Memoriam: Charles Whitebread (1943-2008)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-558101562008-09-18T11:27:45-07:002008-09-18T18:27:45Z2008-09-18T18:27:45ZProfessor Whitebread, an expert in criminal law and procedure who taught for many years at the University of Virginia and then the University of Southern California, is, of course, best-known to thousands of attorneys around the country for his lucid...Brian LeiterMemorial NoticesThe U.S. Supreme Court's Waning International Influencetag:typepad.com,2003:post-557786122008-09-17T17:41:26-07:002008-09-18T00:41:41Z2008-09-18T00:41:26ZSeveral readers called my attention to this story. The problem, obviously, is lack of ideological diversity on our Supreme Court! As I noted in my debate with Peter Schuck (to which I've alluded a bit lately): [B]y global standards—say, in...Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestJustice Scalia Says "University of Chicago Law School" Has Gone "Liberal"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-557442182008-09-17T14:58:00-07:002008-09-17T22:32:36Z2008-09-17T21:58:00ZSo reports the far right New York Sun (and now the ABA Journal has picked it up). I get the sense he didn't mean it as a compliment. Curiously, he seems to confuse political ideology with "rigor": Chicago, he says,...Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestSchools With Hiring Needs in (1) Property/Natural Resources/Energy Law, or (2) Jurisprudence/Law & Philosophy,tag:typepad.com,2003:post-557518722008-09-17T09:08:59-07:002008-09-17T16:08:59Z2008-09-17T16:08:59Zplease feel free to drop me a line, I have some good leads (not all Chicago candidates).Brian LeiterFaculty NewsSarah Palin: The New Monica Goodling?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-557215602008-09-17T04:33:00-07:002008-09-17T11:33:24Z2008-09-17T11:33:00ZSherrilynn Ifill (Maryland) comments.Brian LeiterOf Academic InterestE-Mail Problemstag:typepad.com,2003:post-557153962008-09-16T13:54:56-07:002008-09-16T20:55:24Z2008-09-16T20:54:56ZA shutdown of the electrical system at the Law School on Monday night created some problems for those sending me e-mail at my Chicago address. It appears everything got through to me, but not till morning. Please note we're having...Brian LeiterNavel-GazingRutgers's Patterson to Take Up Chair in Legal Theory at EUI in Florencetag:typepad.com,2003:post-556919242008-09-16T06:01:53-07:002008-09-16T13:02:20Z2008-09-16T13:01:53ZDennis Patterson (legal philosophy, commercial law), Board of Governors Professor of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, will take up the Chair in Legal Theory at the European University Institute in Florence for a five-year...Brian LeiterFaculty NewsDignam from Yale to Columbiatag:typepad.com,2003:post-556593502008-09-15T11:47:30-07:002008-09-15T21:39:46Z2008-09-15T18:47:30ZBrett Dignam, a clinical professor at Yale Law School for more than fifteen years and a leading advocate for the rights of prisoners, will join the clinical law faculty at Columbia in July 2010. I usually don't cover moves of...Brian LeiterFaculty News