Posts by jacquelinelipton

As a mother of a pre-school age summer camper, I was struck this week as I always am by the way teachers refer to meeting "new friends", as in "We…

With gratitude to "LLL" who commented on my post from yesterday, the suggestion was made that with the upcoming dean hiring season almost upon us, we might like to think…

I guess we can blame last year's dean search for my sometime obsession with management books, but this weekend I read another one:  Stephen Young's Micromessaging:  Why Great Leadership is…

I've been reading some organizational behavior literature recently focused on team dynamics in the workplace, including Robert Sutton's book, The No Asshole Rule (2007).  One interesting take-away from this book…

At the risk of of offending people (so starting with the premise that no offense is intended to anyone), I've been thinking recently about how we value/appreciate those of our…

It seems that in a number of areas of legal scholarship (intellectual property, privacy just to name some that I follow), law profs are increasingly writing about extra-legal issues -…

So in my (probably) final set of musings for this evening, I was wondering where university-based law reviews originally came from.  Of course today most law schools have more than…

I've talked to a lot of deans in recent years about fund-raising strategies, and the common wisdom seems to be that it's always easier to raise money for a building…

I've been musing lately about ways in which we say things we don't mean without actually lying.  This has arisen from my attempts to explain to my four year old…

For those of you who think that blogging is a recent phenomenon, you might want to think back to the 1970s when Dr Seuss apparently coined the term "blogg" for…