Month: June 2009

What’s the minimum that you would accept to give up tenure?  Steve Levitt’s asking price is only $15,000, on the rationale that “the value of tenure is inversely related to…

Many thanks to Al, Dan, and the rest of the Faculty Lounge gang for letting me hang out with them for a while.  Here in Chapel Hill, I have the…

While indulging in my usual conference-inspired USA Today-fest last week, I noticed an article by Craig Wilson effectively dealing with "friendship fatigue" on Facebook.  Wilson likens Facebook friends to the…

It's my great pleasure to welcome Kim Krawiec of Duke Law School into the faculty lounge.  Kim's going to be sitting with us for a spell.  Kim was with UNC…

Paul Heald has a brief essay up on ssrn, "The Death of Law and Literature."  It's a fast read and addresses the problems of relevancy and audience for law and…

Many thanks to President Filler for nominating me to an open position at The Faculty Lounge.  No doubt President Filler considered many remarkable candidates for this vacancy.  Critics will wail…

Brian Leiter has a post up posing the recurring question of whether a lateral move candidate ought to sign up  up for the AALS faculty recruiting conference registry.   My co-blogger Tim commented…

A couple weeks back I spent a couple of days in lovely Tennessee, where I had the chance to talk a little bit about monuments and memory with Spencer Crew's…

Thanks to Dan and the gang at the Lounge for inviting me stay on permanently - I feel like Heather Locklear on Melrose Place, the guest who just won't go…

My almost-final update of the 2009 law faculty lateral moves list is here.  I'd be very, very appreciative if readers would take one more look to make sure that I've got a complete…