Posts by jacquelinelipton

So in my continuing obsession about faculty mentoring, I've decided to shift focus to senior faculty mentoring for this week and see if I can solicit any views/advice about what ...

Despite the hiring freezes this past year, many law schools, including my own, will be welcoming new tenure track faculty and perhaps some new visitors as well over coming months.  ...

Supposing that some of us are actually going to attempt to read some books for fun over the summer [not, of course, implying that reading law review articles and recent…

Did anyone notice Google's new feature - Google Latitude?  Google describes the service as follows: ===================== With Google Latitude, you can: See where your friends are and what they are…

OK - so this is me just being frivolous because I can see the end of the semester in sight. I've always been both amused and irritated by all those…

After reading Tim Z's post, I just had to write my own - as a colleague dared me to share this (although to be precise, he dared me to write…

To take my mind off the spring law review submission season, I've been reading "Born Digital" by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser - a very good book particularly if you're…

Two broadcasts I saw/heard last Thursday gave me something to think about.  Like many others, I had eagerly (?) awaited Jon Stewart's much hyped interview with Jim Cramer on The…

A student passed this link to me - amusing video ruminating on what it would be like if we used EULA-like terms in everyday life ... Thanks, Mary!

I was having lunch with some colleagues the other day (they know who they are) and we got to talking about how much professorial puffery to include in cover letters…