Posts by raycam

Peking University School of Transnational Law (“STL”) invites applications for entry-level and lateral tenure track scholars of Corporate and Securities Law, Property Law, Law and Economic Development, Intellectual Property Law, Innovation…

With law school graduation season winding down and bar review about to start up, it seemed an appropriate time to think a bit about the making of lawyers. Recently I ...

Deborah Jones Merritt has just posted a new piece on SSRN (as well as a related blog post) that’s well worth looking at for anyone interested in the state of the ...

Yes, say the authors of this article that surveys citation rates.  The stronger impact on citation levels comes from having an abstract, but tables of contents also contribute, and the two…

A friend on Facebook posted a link to a Clickbait Headline Generator  and I found it irresistible. Unfortunately, you can’t plug in your own topic to get the clickbait treatment,…

One of our C.V. Starr fellows and I were having an email exchange today about resources for students in our first year transnational practice course. One of the resources I…

Law schools are moving to a model where the path to a tenure track job increasingly runs through a job as a fellow in a prestigious program such as the ...

One of the curious aspects of modern legal practice and modern law schools is that, despite a lot of talk about how change is needed, not all that much changes. ...

The level of chatter about machine intelligence and how it can impact law practice seems to be growing. That makes sense – what with IBM’s Big Blue wiping the floor…

Back in the 1790s being a hand loom weaver was an ancient, inherently inefficient yet freshly profitable craft in Great Britain. Mechanized thread spinning produced a lot of cheap thread, ...