Brian Leiter's Law School Reports tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-184922 2012-01-27T06:59:44-08:00 News and views about legal academia and the legal profession by Brian Leiter (University of Chicago) and Dan Filler (Drexel University) TypePad BrianLeitersLawSchoolReportshttp://feedburner.google.com From Rutgers-Camden Law To Rowan Law? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e62f7f86970c 2012-01-27T06:59:44-08:00 2012-01-27T07:01:57-08:00 In what would be fairly radical restructing of higher education in New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie has proposed that Rutgers-Camden be merged with Rowan University... Dan Filler David Segal Interviewed on Bloomberg tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e625669d970c 2012-01-27T04:20:00-08:00 2012-01-26T16:21:57-08:00 Segal is the author of a series of New York Times articles on law schools over the last year, some of which were silly and... Brian Leiter Summer Jobs: Some Striking Data tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0162fffee570970d 2012-01-26T06:50:26-08:00 2012-01-26T12:53:22-08:00 UPDATED WITH CORRECTIONS: The original verison had some of the numbers wrong. NYU, to its credit, posts very detailed job information, including about summer jobs... Brian Leiter Legal education in Australia--Melbourne Moving to the US Post-Graduate Degree Model (though law was never quite an undergraduate degree in the U.S. sense either) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e5f4d3c2970c 2012-01-24T16:20:20-08:00 2012-01-24T16:20:50-08:00 Kevin Heller, a law professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia, wrote to correct my claim about Australian legal education in my post from... Brian Leiter Declining Public Support for State Universities tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e5f4c78c970c 2012-01-23T06:33:12-08:00 2012-01-23T06:33:12-08:00 The chart here is striking, and mostly confirms what one would have suspected. It also, of course, explains the generally dramatic increases in tuition at... Brian Leiter Make law an undergraduate degree? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e5cce1cd970c 2012-01-20T07:02:39-08:00 2012-01-20T07:02:39-08:00 That's, in essence, the proposal of Professor McGinnis (Northwestern) and his co-author; it is, of course, the reality in Britain and Australia, as well as... Brian Leiter Lateral Faculty Moves List tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e5ccbe02970c 2012-01-19T06:40:28-08:00 2012-01-19T06:40:28-08:00 Over at the Faculty Lounge, I've put up my initial (and significantly incomplete) 2012 law school lateral faculty moves list. As always, I'm seeking information... Dan Filler How much employment data are school disclosing? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef016760b511e9970b 2012-01-18T04:15:00-08:00 2012-01-18T04:15:00-08:00 The Vanderbilt grads who run "Law School Transparency" (LST) have compiled a detailed chart, for which the bottom line is: most schools ain't disclosing much!... Brian Leiter In Memoriam: Charles Haar tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e58993fa970c 2012-01-17T04:56:00-08:00 2012-01-14T14:56:49-08:00 Charles Haar, the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School passed away on January 10. He was 91. Haar joined the... Dan Filler Post links to law school employment stats here tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e5792baf970c 2012-01-13T09:23:20-08:00 2012-01-13T09:23:20-08:00 Several more schools e-mailed me after yesterday's post, so I'm going to open comments for posting links to employment statiscis that law schools have put... Brian Leiter More Law Schools with Detailed Employment Stats tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0162ff15cb0a970d 2012-01-12T05:20:00-08:00 2012-01-12T07:02:49-08:00 Both have had them up for awhile: Northwestern (very detailed) and Iowa (also lots of detail). Also Chapman (not sure if this is recent or... Brian Leiter Updated Dean Search List tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e55eaba1970c 2012-01-12T04:47:00-08:00 2012-01-12T04:47:00-08:00 I have updated my annual list of law school dean searches here. Dan Filler Four Law Schools Elected to Membership in the AALS tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e5325d3a970c 2012-01-11T04:08:00-08:00 2012-01-11T04:08:00-08:00 They are: Drexel, North Carolina Central, St. Thomas (Minnesota), and Texas Wesleyan. Brian Leiter How to improve your citation count tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0162febb250a970d 2012-01-10T06:06:00-08:00 2012-01-10T06:06:00-08:00 If US News ever incorporates citation measures to its rankings, expect this to happen quickly! Brian Leiter In Memoriam: Hans Smit tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e53efbfa970c 2012-01-09T08:11:33-08:00 2012-01-09T11:22:07-08:00 Professor Hans Smit, an international arbitration scholar at Columbia Law School, passed away Saturday. He was 84. Smit, who was born in Holland, was a... Dan Filler One Week, Three New Law School Deans tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0162ff21ddc7970d 2012-01-09T04:05:00-08:00 2012-01-06T13:05:48-08:00 Last week, three law schools appointed new deans. Appalachian Law School appointed Lucy McGough, a professor at LSU Law. Stetson College of Law named LSU... Dan Filler Cabranes v. Rodriguez tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e5321f7a970c 2012-01-08T10:50:23-08:00 2012-01-09T13:31:45-08:00 Here and here. Judge Cabranes's story about the student in the housing clinic who had never had property has to refer to Yale, by the... Brian Leiter What do you need to find out now that you've gotten a tenure-track offer? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0120a6b3ab0c970b 2012-01-08T05:51:00-08:00 2012-01-08T06:40:10-08:00 MOVING TO FRONT FROM NOVEMBER 24, 2009 (AND NOV. 6, 2011) With luck (and luck will help more than usual in what is a difficult... Brian Leiter "Leiter Reports" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef016760196fba970b 2012-01-08T04:29:00-08:00 2012-01-08T04:29:00-08:00 That's the title of this interview with a Paris-based magazine (but one mostly written by Brits), but which several of my law colleagues here and... Brian Leiter In Memoriam: Robert Fletcher tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef01676003acff970b 2012-01-06T05:48:00-08:00 2012-01-06T05:48:00-08:00 Professor Bob Fletcher, a retired faculty member at the University of Washington, the husband of retired Ninth Circuit Judge Betty Fletcher, and father of Ninth... Dan Filler More on NY Times Reporting on Law Schools: The Case of Duncan Law School tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0162ff19bf7f970d 2012-01-06T03:08:00-08:00 2012-01-06T03:08:00-08:00 The plot thickens. Brian Leiter In Memoriam: Daniel H. Benson tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0162ff047010970d 2012-01-05T05:20:00-08:00 2012-01-04T12:22:43-08:00 On December 28, 2011, Professor Dan Benson passed away. He served on the Texas Tech law faculty from 1973 until 2004, and continued teaching after... Dan Filler If law schools took the medical school model seriously tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e4f8cd11970c 2012-01-04T05:24:00-08:00 2012-01-04T09:25:53-08:00 A very interesting comment from Matt Spitzer (Texas), the former Dean at USC, over at Dean Rodriguez's new blog: Much of the current disenchantment stems... Brian Leiter Northwestern Dean Dan Rodriguez Has a Blog! tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef01675f810d41970b 2012-01-03T05:19:00-08:00 2012-01-03T06:07:17-08:00 This is, I believe, a first for a Dean of an elite law school! I gather it's fairly common among Deans of elite business schools.... Brian Leiter The best philosophy programs tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0162fe96bc03970d 2012-01-02T04:48:00-08:00 2012-01-02T04:48:00-08:00 Some readers might be interested in the report on Anglophone graduate programs in philosophy I orchestrate (and which is published by Blackwell), which is based... Brian Leiter What if the federal loans for legal education become harder to get? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0168e48fd409970c 2011-12-29T03:52:00-08:00 2011-12-29T03:52:00-08:00 It seems inevitable. Brian Leiter And now Michigan posts its employment stats... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c659b53ef0162fe95f8f0970d 2011-12-28T09:43:19-08:00 2011-12-28T11:14:10-08:00 ...in more or less the Yale/Chicago format. One thing surprising here is that Michigan has salary data on only a bit more than half of... Brian Leiter