Month: August 2011

On one of my research trips to the lovely Shenandoah Valley this summer I brought along a really terrific festschrift volume for Sheldon Meyer, the legendary Oxford University Press editor.  I picked…

Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Daniel L. Chen, and G. Mitu Gulati, all of Duke University's Law School, have posted a new paper,  "'Not that Smart': Sonia Sotomayor and the Construction of Merit" at ssrn.…

From an email that I received earlier this week: SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL in Boston invites applications for two tenure-track positions starting in the 2012-2013 academic year.  We seek entry-level…

I wanted to follow up on the very clever study by David McKenzie and Berk Ozler about blogging impact that I mentioned yesterday.  The authors also employ several methods to…

From an email that I received a few days ago: Gonzaga University School of Law seeks applicants for a tenure-track position primarily in the area of Intellectual Property, with other…

I've very excited to see Mark Auslander's imminently forthcoming book, The Accidental Slaveowner. This is going to be a very important book; it wraps together universities and slavery and brings…

There has been plenty of talk of how the new legal economy has led a number of potential law schools to delay or reconsider their plans.  Now we hear that…

Dean Larry Sager will be stepping down as the dean of the University of Texas School of Law at the end of this year.  He has been dean since 2006.  

Posting at Dan's request: Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law seeks both entry level and lateral faculty candidates in a variety of subject areas.  Drexel University is a national…

The impact of a Freakonomics blog post about a paper, as measured by abstract views and download statistics from Research Papers in Economics (RePEc): Nearly as impactful as a Faculty…