Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Law School
-
Financial Times: Seven Reasons Academics Are Ill-Suited for Modern Organizations
Interesting article by Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times, Why Academics Make an Unfit Subject for Management. She offers seven reasons why academics are ill-suited for modern organizations: They are very clever. This is not an advantage in most institutions as it means they can think for themselves. (They may not actually be that clever,…
-
Group Seeks to Forbid Law Schools from Relying on LSAT
The Coalition for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Law School and the Legal Profession (here and here)yesterday published an update in its effort to convince the ABA to forbid law schools from relying on the LSAT in admissions because of the test’s disparate impact on African-American and Mexican-American applicants. David Bernstein criticizes the proposal here.
-
Sauder & Lancaster on The Effects of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on the Admissions Process of Law Schools
Interesting article by two sociologists, Michael Sauder (Iowa) & Ryon Lancaster (Chicago), Do Rankings Matter? The Effects of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on the Admissions Process of Law Schools, 40 Law & Society Rev. 105 (March 2006). Here is the abstract: In recent years, there has been a tremendous proliferation of quantitative evaluative…
-
Washington State Changes Evaluation Form in Response to Complains of Anti-Conservative Bias
According to today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington State University’s College of Education has changed an evaluation form it uses to judge students’ aptitude to become teachers in response to complaints that the form discriminated against conservative teacher candidates: The offending language: students in training to become teachers must exhibit "an understanding of the complexities…
-
Faculty Spirituality
The Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA yesterday released an interesting study, Spirituality and the Professoriate: A National Study of Faculty Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behaviors, as part of its Spirituality in Higher Education Project. Today’s Inside Higher Ed and Chronicle of Higher Education report on the study. From the Inside Higher Ed article: The following…
-
ACTEC Sponsors 2006 Student Writing Competition
The Legal Education Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) is sponsoring the 2006 Law Student Writing Competition: Purpose: This competition was created by ACTEC’s Legal Education Committee, which consists of law school professors who teach in the area of trusts and estates and practitioners who teach as adjuncts in the…
-
National Review on George Mason Law School
Interesting article in the March 13, 2006 National Review: A Law School with a Twist – At George Mason University, the Left Doesn’t Reign, Believe It or Not, by John J. Miller: This is a nerve-wracking time of year for law-school deans, as they await the results of what amounts to the Bowl Championship Series…
-
BU Hosts LL.M. Program Info Session Tonight in Boston
Boston University will host an LL.M. program information session tonight at the law school (765 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 1540) from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. The session provides an opportunity for those interested in earning an LL.M. degree, on either a part-time or a full-time basis, to learn about BU’s Graduate Tax Program and Graduate Program…
-
Tracking Law Faculty Hires
Larry Solum is collecting information for his annual Law School Entry-Level Hiring Report here. Dan Filler is collecting information for a Law School Lateral Hiring Report here.
-
National Law Journal on Blogs and Legal Scholarship
Interesting article in this week’s National Law Journal, Blogging Law Profs Assault Ivory Tower; Is It Scholarship, or a Cyber Chit-Chat?, by Leigh Jones. The article has nice things to say about our Law Professor Blog Network and plugs our April 28 symposium on Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship at the Berkman Center…
-
Tenured Professor Fired for Maligning Colleagues on RateMyProfessors.com
Interesting article in the Chroncile of Higher Education: U. of Saskatchewan Fires Tenured Professor Accused of Maligning Colleagues on RateMyProfessors.com, by Dan Carnevale: The University of Saskatchewan has fired a tenured professor after determining that he had anonymously posted disparaging messages about fellow faculty members on RateMyProfessors.com. Stephen Berman was a math professor at the…
-
2006 Mugel National Tax Moot Court Competition Winners
The results of the 2006 Mugel National Tax Moot Court Competition at the University at Buffalo Law School are available here: Winner: Florida State (Rusty Spoor & Kim Nguyen) Finalist: Quinnipiac (Alan DePeters, Matthew Glaude & John Giacobbe) Semi-Finalists: Brooklyn (David Kaye &Thomas Welling) Quinnipiac (Maria Eberle & Kristine Pond) Best Brief: Florida State (Rusty…
-
Health Risks of Campus Wireless Networks
Scary story from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Canadian University Bans Wireless Networking, Citing Health Concerns, by Andrea L. Foster: The president of Lakehead University, in Ontario, says that he will not allow the institution to deploy a wireless network on the campus out of concern that the electromagnetic frequencies such systems emit could endanger…
-
Call for Speakers: CALI Conference on Law School Computing
The 16th Annual Conference for Law School Computing will be held Thursday, June 15 through Saturday June 17 at the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center. The title of this year’s conference is "Rip, Mix, Learn." CALI has issued a Call for Speakers to law faculty, librarians, and IT staff with experience using, installing,…
-
Summer Associate Pay Hits $2,800 Per Week
The recent round of pay hikes raising first year associate salaries to $145,000 (blogged here) will benefit this year’s summer associates, as their pay will increase to $2,800 per week! Oh to be young again… (For a wonderful chart on the other perquisites of summer associate life (including free BlackBerries!), see here; for an opposing…
-
BU & GW Host LL.M. Information Session Tonight in D.C.
Boston University School of Law and The George Washington University Law School will host an LL.M. program information session tonight at the GW Law School Faculty Conference Center, Burns 505, 716 20th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
-
NY Times on Student Emails to Faculty
Interesting front-page article in the New York Times, To: Professor@University.edu Subject: Why It’s All About Me, by Jonathan D. Glater: At colleges and universities nationwide, e-mail has made professors much more approachable. But many say it has made them too accessible, erasing boundaries that traditionally kept students at a healthy distance. These days, they say,…
-
Exporting the U.S. News Rankings
Interesting article in Inside Higher Ed: A Less Rank Alternative, by Doug Lederman: Britney Spears CDs. McDonald’s hamburgers. Sylvester Stallone movies. To the list of exports for which the United States might be less than fully proud, one might add commercially published rankings of colleges and universities. Since U.S. News & World Report first published…
-
Tax Court: L.A. Tax Attorney-CPA Can Deduct Travel Costs to Do Research in Chapman Law School Library; Court Rejects IRS’s Argument That There Were Adequate Law Libraries in L.A.
In Berge v. Commissioner, T.C. Summ. Op. 2006-29 (2/21/06) the Tax Court today permitted an L.A. tax lawyer-CPA to deduct the cost of driving to the Chapman Law Library (approximately thirty-five miles away) to do tax research, despite the IRS’s argument that the trips were for personal purposes to visit his family because there were…
-
Kathleen Sullivan, 5259 Others, Take California Bar Today; Jerry Brown Blames Yale for His Failure
In December, we blogged press reports about former Stanford Dean Kathleen Sullivan’s failure of the July 2005 California Bar Exam. Today’s L.A. Times (A High Bar for Lawyers) reports that Dean Sullivan is taking no chances this time as she and 5259 others sit for the three-day exam beginning today: Kathleen Sullivan, former dean of…
-
Chronicle: Emphasis on LSAT Scores Hurts Black Applicants
Last week, we blogged an article in the Wall Street Journal, Fewer Blacks Enter Law School, Prompting Plan for Monitoring. Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education follows up with Law Schools’ Emphasis on LSAT Scores Hurts Black Applicants, Report Says, by Katherine S. Mangan: In an effort to raise their U.S. News & World Report rankings…
-
WSJ: Law Reviews Adapt to New Era
Interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal: Law Reviews Adapt to New Era, by Brandt Goldstein: More than any other time in the past, law professors are looking beyond law reviews, moving relevant and timely commentary to the Internet and the blogosphere… Several factors have led to the current law review crisis. First off, there…
-
Law Prof Salaries at Michigan
Two weeks ago, we blogged the Top 10 Law Prof (non-dean) salaries at Virginia and the University of California from publicly available data. A reader sent in Law Prof Salaries at Michigan, which are between the ranges at Virginia (on the high end) and California (on the low end), culled from The Michigan Daily (click…
-
Deans’ Leadership in Legal Education Symposium
The University of Toledo Law Review has published the sixth annual issue in its wonderful Deans’ Leadership in Legal Education Series. Each issue contains essays written by Deans of various law schools on a wide array of legal education topics. The current issue contains twenty-two essays written by these deans: Making the Case for Legal…
-
Update on the ABA and Law School Diversity
Several updates in the controversy over the ABA’s proposed changes to the diversity requirement in its law school accreditation standards: 1. David Bernstein, who spearked the public debate last Saturday with a Wall Street Journal op-ed, has a detailed follow-up post on The Volokh Conspiracy, More on the ABA’s Illegal Racial Preference Requirement: ABA officials…