Posts by Michael Risch

The Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law is seeking a new dean. The job posting here here.

The Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor for next academic year. Here is a description: The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching two…

This announcement is even later to the game than the last one! But it is a tenure/tenure track position, and should be of interest to readers of this blog. The…

Today, Villanova University is announcing a gift of $25 million from alumnus Charles "Chuck" Widger, founder and chairman of Brinker Capital. We will be known as the Villanova University Charles…

Please see the hiring announcement below - please share with any interested candidates. Notes: 1. The official link for applications is: https://jobs.villanova.edu/postings/8633 2. For a variety of reasons, we got…

This morning, I received a survey from Wolters Kluwer (Aspen), publisher of the IP Survey textbook I use. The survey sought out what I find important in a book, and…

School has started, and I have woken from my summer slumber. Unlike many colleagues, I get a lot less work done in the summer (when the kids are out of…

For those not already following Michael Simkovic's posts at Leiter's Law Reports, I suggest you do so if you are at all interested in the question of how we should…

I've used clickers since I started teaching. In some classes/lessons, I use them extensively. For example, my novelty and statutory bars sections of patent law are almost all clicker exercises,…

This may be my most "faculty loungy" post to date, but also the shortest. Law schools are in many ways separate from the rest of the university. They are professional…