Posts by jacquelinelipton

As law dean search season is in full swing, I thought I'd raise some process questions which I'm sure we've discussed before at The Lounge, but some time has passed…

I know this isn't law related, but because "How to Steal a Million" with Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn is one of my favorite films, I wanted to note O'Toole's…

OK - don't shoot me for the wording of the title of this post. We can all argue about what "better" means.  I opened this thread in response to comments…

I've been a little quiet on the blog lately largely because it was kind of a self-imposed rule for my sabbatical which is sadly coming to an end. On reflection,…

Dean, Law Center UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON Houston, Texas The University of Houston (UH) Law Center seeks a creative, dynamic, and ambitious leader with a track record of distinguished contributions to…

When I was on the entry-level market some years back, a number of hiring committees used the large cohort of tenure-track faculty at their schools as a selling point, stressing…

From our colleagues "down under" (and especially Prof Colin Picker at UNSW) .... ============== "Members of the law school’s Legal Education Cluster have today launched a new blog on legal…

I've heard a few folks say this year that they think attendance at the AALS Annual Meeting in January will be lower than usual because of cost-cutting measures on faculty…

Reading Alex London's new YA dystopian novel, Proxy, this weekend, I couldn't stop thinking about this description of what the future of classroom teaching might look like. The book has…

Here's a stupid question for the end of July. I was wondering if anyone would like to weigh in on the issue of formatting articles for submission to law reviews.…