Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Law School
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More on Ideological Diversity on University Faculties
Following up on last week’s posts about ideological diversity on university faculties (here, here, here, here, here, here, and here): a couple of interesting studies: Stanley Rothman, S. Robert Lichter & Neil Nevitte, "Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty", The Forum: Vol. 3: No. 1, Article 2 (2005): This article first examines the ideological…
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Dean Responds to Santa Clara’s Fall into U.S. News 3rd Tier
Dean Donald Polden has issued a detailed response to Santa Clara’s fall into the Third Tier (from #94 in 2005) in the 2006 U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings.
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Graduates of Higher-Ranked Business Schools Get More Pay, Not Necessarily Better Education
There is an interesting article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Graduates of Best Business Schools Don’t Always Draw Top Pay, Study Finds, by Katherine S. Mangan. The article reports on a new study published in the Academy of Management Journal (Dec. 2005/Jan.2006), Being Good or Being Known: An Empirical Examination of the Dimensions, Anyecedents,…
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Law School Myths
Funny Wall Street Journal article, Fact or Fiction? Exploring the Myths About Lawyers, by Robin Kelsey: As an alumnus of Yale Law School who spent less time practicing law than studying it, I take great pleasure in offering unrequested advice to people contemplating a career in law. Here are five myths about legal education and…
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More on Controversy Over Diversity at Florida
We previously have blogged press reports of a student petition at Florida complaining about the lack of diversity in the faculty and student body, as well as the administration’s response. Folks at Florida have asked me to post three additional documents: The original letter to Dean Jerry posted by a group of students at the…
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Pittsburgh Looking for Tax Visitors in 2006-07
The University of Pittsburgh School of Law is looking to hire two tax visitors for the 2006-07 academic year. For further information, contact Associate Dean (and Tax Prof) Darryll Jones here.
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Law Professor Blogs Network Launches Four New Blogs
We are delighted to announce the launch of four new blogs as part of our Law Professor Blogs Network: Legal Writing Prof Blog, by Nancy Soonpaa (Texas Tech) & Sue Liemer (Southern Illinois) Products Liability Prof Blog, by J. David Prince, Michael Steenson & Kenneth Ross (all of William Mitchell) State & Local Government Law…
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UCLA Alumni Group Abandons Plan to Pay Students to Tape Lectures by Left-Leaning Profs
The New York Times reports today that UCLAProfs.com has abandoned its plan [blogged here and here] to pay UCLA students to tape-record the lectures of left-leaning professors: A 24-year-old conservative alumnus who announced earlier this month that he planned to pay students at the University of California, Los Angeles, to tape-record the lectures of left-leaning…
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Mnookin on Exploding Offers
Jennifer Mnookin (UCLA) has an exceptionally thoughtful post on Exploding Offers. And check out this first-hand account of a recipient of an exploding offer. Update: Dan Filler defends exploding offers here.
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Florida Administration Responds to Student Petition on Diversity
On Sunday, we blogged press reports of a student petition at Florida complaining about the lack of diversity in the faculty and student body. Associate Dean George Dawson yesterday sent this memo to the faculty in response to the petition: Colleagues Yesterday, many of you saw a copy of a one page open, unsigned letter…
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Schuck and Leiter Debate: Do Law Schools Need More Ideological Diversity?
Legal Affairs is hosting a debate between Perter Schuck (Yale) and Brian Leiter (Texas): Do Law Schools Need More Ideological Diversity? Law professors are supposed to help students learn to think about issues from all sides. While law schools may have recruited more women and minorities in the past generation, they still lack ideological diversity,…
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L.A. Times: Is America’s Ivory Tower Leaning Left?
Interesting post by Steve Bainbridge (UCLA), Disparate Impact in Academic Hiring, on the Sunday L.A. Times editorial page treatment of the question: Is America’s Ivory Tower Leaning Left?, prompted by the actions of UCLAProfs.com, a web site started by an alumni group to "expose UCLA’s most radical professors" (blogged here on Thursday). Here are some…
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Law Students Protest Lack of Diversity at Florida
The Independent Florida Alligator reports that Students Petition Levin; Some Are Concerned About the Law School’s Lack of Diversity: Seventeen of the 92 incoming Fall students to the UF Levin College of Law are not white. Ten of the college’s 72 faculty are not white….The law school’s 18.5% minority enrollment this Fall places it near…
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Monitoring What Profs Say in the Classroom
Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the brouhaha caused by UCLAProfs.com, a web site started by an alumni group to "expose UCLA’s most radical professors. " The article, Independent Alumni Group Offers $100 Bounties to UCLA Students Who Ferret Out Classroom Bias, notes that the group was founded by Andrew Jones, a 2003 UCLA…
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Should Tenured Law Profs Stop Writing Law Review Articles?
A post by Rosa Brooks (Virginia) on the new LawCulture Blog, Goodbye to Law Reviews?, has caused a kerfuffle in the law prof blogosphere for her suggestion that she may stop publishing law review articles now that she has tenure. For some of the reactions, see: Mark Fenster (Florida) Paul Horwitz (Southwestern) Orin Kerr (George…
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New Supreme Court Clerkship Placement Data
Leiter’s Law School Rankings has updated its Supreme Court Clerkship Placement Data to include information from the 1991 Term through the 2005 Term. The Top 5 law school sources of Supreme Court clerks during this period were: Harvard (128) Yale (100) Chicago (65) Stanford (42) Columbia (32) Some suprising schools in the Top 20: Notre…
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State Support for Higher Education Has No Correlation With College Quality
Interesting article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education: State Support for Higher Education Has "No Correlation" With College Quality, Report Says, by Anne K. Walters: Public colleges in states that spend a lot of money on higher education aren’t necessarily better than colleges in states that provide them with meager support, according to a report…
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Colorado Governor Proposes State-Wide Tenure Standards at Public Colleges and Universities
Interesting article in this morning’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Colorado Governor Proposes Standardizing the Tenure Process, a Possible Response to the Ward Churchill Controversy, by John Gravios: Gov. Bill Owens of Colorado said in his State of the State address last week that he wants to establish statewide standards for granting tenure at public universities…
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Topic Suggestions for Next Year’s AALS Tax Section Meeting
Julie Roin (Chicago), chair of the AALS Tax Section, wants feedback from the Tax Prof community on the topic for next year’s meeting: As this year’s president of the AALS tax section, I am trying to pick a topic for next year’s panel presentation. I can’t think of any tax topic that correlates well with…
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Faculty Ratings of Students
We previously have blogged the web site RateMyProfessors.com, which has has ratings of over 700,000 professors (including many Tax Profs) posted by students. The site boasts: Students have turned the tables on their professors at RateMyProfessors.com, the Internet’s largest listing of college professor ratings. The free website offers a public review (and sometimes a public…
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Faculty Employment and Salaries
The National Center of Education Statistics has posted an interesting report, Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004, and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Faculty, 2004-05 (NCES 2006–187). Here is the abstract: This report presents information from the Winter 2004-05 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) web-based data collection. Tabulations represent data requested from all postsecondary institutions…
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New York Bar Results v. US News & SSRN Rankings
July 2005 New York Bar Exam Law School Results (First Time Takers) v. US News & SSRN NY Bar Rank School US News Overall NY Rank US News Peer NY Rank SSRN NY Rank 1 (95%) Cornell 3 3 3 2 (94%) NYU 2 2 2 3 (90%) Columbia 1 1 1 4 (89%) St.…
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Who Ya Gonna Call: Lawyers or Law Professors?
Peter Lattman of the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog has an interesting post today, Who to Hire: Lawyers or Law Professors?, based on a story in today’s New York Times by Jonathan Glater, Even Law Firms Join the Trend to Outsourcing: Instead of using pricey outside law firms, cost-conscious corporate counsel are hiring specialty research…
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Ideological Wars Among Business Law Professors
Interesting post by Gordon Smith at Conglomerate on Ideological Wars Among Business Law Professors: The [AALS] Section on Business Associations and the Section on Securities Regulation are dominated by free marketeers, while the Section on Socio-Economics has a high(er) concentration of progressives. There is, among this latter group, a pervasive sense that the corporate governance…
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Turley on Law Schools and the Solomon Amendment
Interesting article in today’s National Law Journal by Jonathan Turley (George Washington), Issue of Hypocrisy: In Fighting the Solomon Amendment, Are Law Schools Just Assuming the Appearance of Principle While Avoiding Its Costs?: This case has presented a difficult question for academics who generally support gay rights. Last year, this issue was presented to my…