Posts by Tim Zinnecker

The Houston Chronicle has run contrary editorials in recent days on the role that student evaluations should play in determining the quality / proficiency of teaching and the classroom experience. …

Award-winning storyteller Horton Foote died earlier this week at the age of 92.  Foote, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Young Man From Atlanta, is perhaps best ...

Soon after Tom Read became our eighth dean in 1995 (we hope to name our tenth dean soon), he suggested that a photographer take “head shots” of each faculty member. …

I joined the STCL faculty in 1994.  I’m approaching 50, so my mind isn’t what it used to be.  But as I recall, our faculty was asked to consider, every ...

I love to read, so for Christmas one of my family members gave me a membership to the Book-Of-The-Month Club.  As part of my membership, I receive the monthly BOMC…

This is the season when many schools look for visitors to fill curricular needs for the upcoming academic year.  I have been a visitor at three out-of-state law schools.  (Lounge…

Congrats to lounge co-host Kathy Bergin, who received a "thumbs up" from the STCL faculty yesterday on her tenure application!It seems like yesterday that I and several of my colleagues…

I have two articles that I’ll be submitting to law journals over the next three weeks or so.   When I first started teaching in 1994, I did not know that…

WARNING: Some material in this post may trigger profuse sweating, stomach cramps, or hallucinatory flashbacks for readers who did not enjoy Secured Transactions or Bankruptcy courses in law school.   Reader ...

Most of us probably know very little about other law schools, excluding those where we have been students or professors.  In this post I want to provide ten pieces of…