Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Law School
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Caron & Gely on Dead Poets and Law School Rankings
Rafael Gely and I have posted our Introduction to the Indiana rankings symposium, Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Symposium is an outgrowth of our article, What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev.
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The Faculty Salary Game
Mark Fenster (Florida) at PrawfsBlawg discusses an interesting article in Inside Higher Ed, The Faculty Salary Game, by John Lombardi (Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts). The article notes that faculty who feel they are underpaid can demonstate their market value by obtaining a competing offer from another school. If faculty are unable to obtain
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I Hope This Idea Doesn’t Catch On . . .
Ian Ayres (Yale) has published an interesting op-ed in the New York Times, Just What the Professor Ordered. The op-ed follows up on the recent GAO report, College Textbooks: Enhanced Offerings Appear to Drive Price Increases (05-806) (51 pages). The GAO report notes: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation
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New York Law School, Vermont & William Mitchell Barred from Receiving Federal Funds Under Solomon Amendment
Inside Higher Ed reports today that the U.S. Defense Department has added New York Law School to the list of law schools barred from receiving federal funds for violating the Solomon Amendment. Other law schools on the list are Vermont and William Mitchell. Here is the lead in the Inside Higher Ed story: The U.S.
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AALS Moves 2006 Annual Meeting from New Orleans
The AALS announced yesterday that its annual meeting scheduled for January 4-8, 2006 in New Orleans will be shifted to another city, which will be announced within a week: Ever since the tragedy inflicted on the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, AALS has been committed to doing all it can to help the New Orleans’
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Law Faculty Hiring: Pedigree or Performance?
In our recent article, What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Texas L. Rev. 1483 (2004), Rafael Gely and I examined the impact of Moneyball’s emphasis on objective data for law schools. For example, we collected data on the pre-hiring backgrounds of law professors, separating out “pedigree" variables (law
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Tax Profs Call for Rejection of Judge Roberts
160 law professors (including tax profs Linda Beale (Illinois) and Neil Buchanan (Rutgers-Newark)) sent a 10-page letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday opposing the confirmation of Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court. Here is the opening: As law professors from across the United States, we write to express our opposition to the confirmation
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LexisNexis to Provide Free Books to Displaced New Orleans Law Students
LexisNexis’ Law School Publishing group has implemented a plan to respond to the needs of law school students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. LexisNexis will provide free coursebooks to all displaced students enrolled in a law school class that requires a LexisNexis coursebook. LexisNexis will also provide free copies of relevant titles from our Understanding Series
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Publishers to Provide Free Books to Displaced New Orleans Law Students
The four major law school book publishers — Aspen, Foundation Press, LexisNexis, and West — have agreed to provide free course materials to Loyola-New Orleans and Tulane law students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Aspen: We will provide replacement titles for those students who lost Aspen books in the hurricane and its aftermath, or students who
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Loyola-New Orleans & Tulane Ask Other Law Schools to Accept Their Students
After a conference call with Deans Brian Bromberger (Loyola-New Orleans) and Larry Ponoroff (Tulane), the ABA and AALS report that the Deans are encouraging as many law schools as are able to accommodate some Loyola-New Orleans and Tulane students on a transient basis for the fall semester. The two schools will be evaluating their situations
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New Orleans Law School Update
Loyola-New Orleans Blog Tulane Emergency Web Site Blog Law School Policies for Admitting Loyola-NO and Tulane students Law Librarian Blog
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Political Ideology of Law Faculties: Do Tax Profs Matter?
The Sunday New York Times carried an interesting article on the political diversity of law school faculties (If the Law Is an Ass, the Law Professor Is a Donkey): The study [by John McGinnis (Northwestern)], to be published this fall in The Georgetown Law Journal, analyzes 11 years of records reflecting federal campaign contributions by
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Will New Orleans Law Schools Shut Down for Fall Semester?
Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to our tax colleagues in New Orleans. Susan Krinsky, Associate Dean at Tulane, has raised the possibility that the entire Fall 2005 semester may be lost: I believe that Tulane will announce a plan for making up the lost time within the next week. This may involve
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Cincinnati Seeks Director of Center for Corporate Law
The University of Cincinnati College of Law invites applications and nominations for the position of Director of the Center for Corporate Law beginning August 2006. The Center for Corporate Law is an endowed institute within the College devoted to research, teaching, and education in the fields of corporate law, securities law, and related areas. Cincinnati
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More on Presidential Lawyers
Following up on Friday’s post pointing out that more U.S. Presidents dropped out of law school (6) than graduated (5): Milbarge at Begging the Question correctly points out that a number of presidents (e,g, Lincoln, J.Q. Adams) became lawyers before the advent of the modern American law school.
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Presidential Law School Dropouts
According to this site, more U.S. Presidents dropped out of law school (6) than graduated (5): Presidents who dropped out of law school: Lyndon Johnson (Georgetown) William McKinley (Albany) Franklin Roosevelt (Columbia) Theodore Roosevelt (Columbia) Harry Truman (Missouri-Kansas City) Woodrow Wilson (Virginia) Presidents who graduated from law school: Bill Clinton (Yale) Gerald Ford (Yale) Rutherford