tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-184922 2009-11-12T06:22:14-08:00 TypePad BrianLeitersLawSchoolReportshttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef01287588ad43970c 2009-11-12T06:22:14-08:00 2009-11-12T06:22:14-08:00

Who knew? Not me.

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0128757263a6970c 2009-11-11T04:26:00-08:00 2009-11-11T04:27:59-08:00

I am very sorry to report that my friend and former colleague at the University of San Diego School of Law, Fred Zacharias, passed away after battling cancer over the last year. Fred was a leading scholar in the field...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a6670a3d970b 2009-11-10T02:57:00-08:00 2009-11-10T02:57:00-08:00

The ad has now appeared; I repost it here: The University of Chicago Law School seeks to appoint a Law and Philosophy Fellow for the academic year 2010-11. A Ph.D. in philosophy by time of appointment is expected, though in...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-58352566 2009-11-09T02:11:00-08:00 2009-11-09T07:11:23-08:00

A post on this subject two years ago is timely again.

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a6644c35970b 2009-11-08T19:07:29-08:00 2009-11-08T19:07:29-08:00

Robert Hockett (Cornell) comments.

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a64c4135970b 2009-11-06T02:28:00-08:00 2009-11-02T14:30:16-08:00

Courtesy of the new "Roundtable" feature from the Vanderbilt Law Review.

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a6997ea9970c 2009-11-05T03:01:00-08:00 2009-11-05T03:01:00-08:00

...but you won't be able to resist.

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a6441225970b 2009-11-04T02:14:00-08:00 2009-11-04T02:14:00-08:00

There are a few paragraphs here about these interviews you might want to review. It's clearly a tighter year than usual on the academic job market, though the situation is clearly better in academic law than in other fields.

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a6a0ff85970c 2009-11-03T14:17:00-08:00 2009-11-02T11:19:00-08:00

Its Dean, James Hathaway (who is on leave from Michigan), has resigned after only 18 months, and the faculty is in an uproar over a proposed reorganization of the faculty (part of broader financial and administrative adjustments at Melbourne, that...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a6a1fa01970c 2009-11-03T05:45:00-08:00 2009-11-03T05:45:00-08:00

A philosophy student posed the question, which I take up on the philosophy blog. It's perhaps worth adding here that every credible candidate with a jurisprudence specialization on the law teaching market now has done some graduate work in philosophy,...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a69feb18970c 2009-11-02T08:54:00-08:00 2009-11-02T08:54:00-08:00

...so Michael Froomkin (Miami) and colleagues will help.

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a69fe1a5970c 2009-11-02T06:15:15-08:00 2009-11-02T06:15:15-08:00

...in economics.

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a558d749970c 2009-10-31T04:48:00-07:00 2009-10-31T07:51:37-07:00

MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCT. 20 IN LIGHT OF UPDATES AND CORRECTIONS (originally posted Oct. 16) Which of the more "regional" law schools (those whose graduates mostly practice in the region where the school is located) have a particularly good...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a6850d06970c 2009-10-30T02:43:00-07:00 2009-10-30T02:43:00-07:00

...to my esteemed colleague M. Todd Henderson, recipient of this year's Paul Bator Award from the Federalist Society. A list of past winners is here.

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a68b640e970c 2009-10-29T11:29:15-07:00 2009-10-29T11:29:15-07:00

This is funny.

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a67d472c970c 2009-10-28T02:46:00-07:00 2009-10-29T05:11:09-07:00

This time it's the General Accounting Office bearing the news: competition for higher rankings in U.S. News is identified as one of the two major factors driving the rapid increase in law school tuition over the past dozen years or...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a62431b6970b 2009-10-27T07:46:53-07:00 2009-10-27T07:46:53-07:00

Kurt Lash, who holds a Chair in constitutional law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, will move to the University of Illinois College of Law next year, where he will also serve as co-director of a new Program in Constitutional...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a677a2a9970c 2009-10-26T08:27:26-07:00 2009-10-28T14:58:40-07:00

Given earlier budgetary troubles, this development (Download UC Hastings Law School Tuition Increase)--a 20% hike in the cost of a legal education--is not really surprising, though it is no doubt very painful for the students, especially in this job market....

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a6775cd7970c 2009-10-26T06:37:43-07:00 2009-10-26T06:37:43-07:00

Many people will get sick and some may even die because these two are too stupid to be able to analyze and evaluate the relevance of evidence. Share the preceding link with your friends who read The Atlantic. This useful...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a61e47c7970b 2009-10-25T13:58:10-07:00 2009-10-25T14:31:23-07:00

The Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values will sponsor a talk by Larry Laudan (National Autonomous University of Mexico) from 4-6 pm in Room D of the Law School on Monday, October 26. The title: "The Rules of Trial,...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a618cdeb970b 2009-10-23T14:05:40-07:00 2009-10-23T14:06:04-07:00

I presented two different papers at back-to-back law & philosophy workshops/seminars this week, at Columbia (run by Joseph Raz) and at Michigan (run by Scott Hershovitz and Don Herzog). (I don't generally like to discuss the details of academic events...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a6185e9a970b 2009-10-23T11:50:07-07:00 2009-10-23T11:50:07-07:00

...but I've been on the road much of the last week. More soon!

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a61179b4970b 2009-10-21T19:47:35-07:00 2009-10-22T03:46:21-07:00

A reporter from a Connecticut newspaper left me a message today that the two women who were plaintiffs in the lawsuit against their harassers on the Autoadmit cyber-cesspool have settled their claims. I haven't yet seen an account of the...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a642703a970c 2009-10-19T03:49:00-07:00 2009-10-19T11:19:26-07:00

William Sage, a leading health law scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences. There are not many law faculty elected to any branch...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a63fdc40970c 2009-10-15T09:22:59-07:00 2009-10-15T09:23:47-07:00

Here's a useful overview of how things look in different parts of the nation (and follow the links to the American College Health Association data). The injectable version of the vaccine just became available in Chicago yesterday (for high-risk groups,...

Brian Leiter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a629081c970c 2009-10-14T03:39:00-07:00 2009-10-11T12:51:51-07:00

Here is a summary of the results from the "best faculties" polls we conducted over the last couple of weeks. Bear in mind, of course, that schools differ in faculty size, which may affect the ability to effectively cover different...

Brian Leiter