The folks over at PrawfsBlawg have an interesting series of posts going on that will be of interest to many junior (and many senior, though much of the advice is designed for juniors) profs. For example, Chris Walker has a few FAQs designed for junior faculty, such as How Does My Research Fit Within the Types of Legal Scholarship? (Jr. Law Prawfs FAQ) and Is Publishing a Book Review in a Law Review Still a Worthwhile Pretenure Endeavor? (Jr. Law Prawfs FAQ), with a response from Paul Horwitz. Also of interest is Stuart Ford's post on The Culture of Faculty Works in Progress Presentations. I'll try to say more about these ideas when I have time, but for now wanted to alert readers that there are some interesting conversations going on over there that they may want to follow.
Advice For Junior Faculty Over At Prawfs
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Here's one extra piece of important advice: avoid backstabbing senior "mentors" at all costs
Backstabbing is always inadvisable. Even post-tenure.
As opposed to frontstabbing your mentors, which is OK.
My bad. "backstabbing" is meant to be read as adjective, not a verb. I should restate my original claim as follows: Be wary of mentors, for they may turn around and betray you in the end …
Oh, that's like a whole other problem.
Ah ha! Yes, that is a very different type of warning.