Posts by jacquelinelipton

In my quest to kill time while driving long distances I have finally succumbed to the audio book - for those times when you just can't use a Kindle because…

As someone who will likely be stuck in an airport most of Valentine's Day this year myself, I tuned in with amusement to a local radio show this morning debating…

So I'm doing a lot of flying this semester and have finally entered the age of netbooks and Kindles.  And here's what I've discovered.  While I absolutely adore both my…

I may have blogged along these lines before, but I had a conversation about entry level hiring yesterday that reminded me of my fascination with this issue.  I know that…

According to a recent blog post, Columbia Pictures may have officially ended its relationship with Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi with respect to the popular Spiderman movie franchise.  There have…

At an AALS Annual Meeting panel on the electronification of law libraries over the weekend, an interesting point was made about the need (or otherwise) for peer reviewed law journals. …

Eric's recent post about workshop culture (hearkening back to Kim's earlier post on the topic) got me thinking about the related issue of faculty visiting culture.  Our school has not…

This probably serves me right for reading self help books as part of my eclectic holiday reading schedule, but I came across the following passage recently in Harold Kushner's,  When…

Brian Tamanaha's comments on my earlier post about faculty scholarship got me realizing that I really had posted it out of context without explaining that I had also been having…

I've been thinking a lot lately about the role of the law school and university administration with respect to faculty scholarship.  Starting with a couple of propositions that may not…