You know, it's been a long while since we had an open thread here at the faculty lounge. Now, that hasn't stopped readers from commenting on stuff that's unrelated to a post and, thus, letting us know what's on their mind! But perhaps it's past time that we ask you to tell us what's on your mind.
The California Bar Exam is on my mind. One day down, two more to go. May I never have to do this again.
The future impact of the communications revolution on legal education. If we look at retailing we can see that Big Box stores are dying yet barber shops and nail salons are thriving. There is a limit to what can be done via the net.Right now ABA rules are constraining much of the most radical potential changes. These rules will change. I wonder what law schools will look like twenty years from now. They will be changed. We live in a world where you die or change. The question is how will our world change?
One case I have found strangely absent from discussion in the law professor blawgosphere is the Brown Family ("Sister Wives") litigation in Utah, in which Jonathan Turley is representing the Browns. I would love to see some posts from family law or con law or crim law scholars discussing/explaining/analyzing the case.
When you are going to post your laterals list for 2012…
Moderate a symposium panel for the first time & wondering what it entails– Intro topic as well as speakers? Ask the first few Qs and moderate the rest? Coordinate airport pickup/dinner? Provide additional feedback on the papers?
How bad will it be for the law schools this year? Will any close?
Do law professors feel guilty for all of the fraud going on in law schools? How about leaving their students destitute?
While several of the blogs and other sites in the "Reading Room" are no longer active, worthy blogs, like several at Jim Chen's Jurisdynamics Network (including where I blog: Ratio Juris), as well as other blogs, ReligiousLeftLaw (yes, I blog there too), and the best Indian Law blog, Turtle Talk, have not been let into the room. What does one have to do for the powers-that-be in The Faculty Lounge to be given a seat in the room?
One more: the Legal Ethics Forum would be a nice addition as well (no, I don't blog there, but I do sometimes leave comments).
Lateral hiring. How does a junior professor do this when said junior is not necissarily well-connected?
I am curious about when reasonable men and women in the legal academy are going to speak up and aggressively counter the influence of feminist theory in both law and legal academic thought. I am wondering when all the good liberal men will stop their neo-chivalry of entertaining, and even legitimizing, feminists' insistence on putting women first/ahead in every context while they simultaneously call it a call for mere "equality," and start demanding that feminism stick to its purported basic principles of truly equal dignity, compassion and respect for both sexes.
I sure as hell am not going to do it before I get tenure because anyone who does not passively accept feminists' inversion of logic, history and reason is deemed misogynistic and sexist (e.g., see the comments to this otherwise great post by Giovanna Shay: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2012/06/parenthood-for-the-05.html ).
So, perhaps I've answered my own question at least for some. But, to you men and women with tenure who just sit and smirk in restrained disagreement as "feminists" make unjustified headway, what's your excuse?
Many women are starting to stand up for men because we refuse to stand up for ourselves. Consider the single mother of 3 with no formal education who posted this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8tToFv-bA&feature=plcp (her remarks culminate in statements about law and policy about 12:00 in)) on YouTube and has so far received thousands of dollars in donations and even an unsolicited offer from a major publishing company to write a book; she has also received offers of help from academics who see her brilliance and want to help her any way they can. Men need to check their chivalry—both in its traditionalist and unconscious liberal forms—and speak up for themselves rather than making reasonable women do all the work for them.
FINALLY the site added tweet and like icons! Welcome to the age of social media!
The one major interface feature that some other blogs have, that I wish the Faculty Lounge had, is a list of recent comments on the sidebar (i.e., the most recent 10 comments, by name and post). Without that, to see if a discussion has progressed, one has to scroll down through several posts and either click on the comments section of each post of interest to see if new comments have been added, or else compare the current number of comments on each post to the number of comments each had the last time one wandered over to the Lounge (which in turn requires one to remember the number of comments each post has over time). I suspect that there would be more discussion, and over a longer period of time, with this feature.
Hi Readers,
Just wanted to say, first, thanks a ton for visiting us. We appreciate that you're spending time here and that you're commenting. Second, we've heard you and are responding to some of these requests. Working backwards, Michelle, there's a list of recent comments on the upper right. Great idea. Patrick, we've added your two blogs to the reading room. Anonprof, the laterals list is coming soon. Thanks for your forbearance. Third time, I hope the bar went well for you!
I hope some of the other bloggers here — or reader — will respond as appropriate to the other comments.
Yay! See, before, I would never have noticed a new comment on a post originally published lo these many days ago.