Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Education
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Is the Law Professor Gravy Train Over (Part 2)?
Following up on January's post, Is the Law Professor Gravy Train Over?: The New York Times DealBook: Harvard, Private Equity and the Education Bubble, by Steven M. Davidoff (UConn): There have been a number of bubbles over the past decade that we now know about. Unfortunately, we are also about to find out if there was…
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Careers in Tax Law Today for Washington, D.C. Area Tax Students
The ABA Tax Section hosts Careers in Tax Law today for Washington, D.C. area tax students at Georgetown: The Section of Taxation co-hosts Careers in Tax Law panels at various law schools around the country to introduce J.D. and LL.M. students to careers available in the tax practice area. The career panels typically include three…
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Northwestern: The Impact of the Economy on Law Students
Wigmore Follies 2009 – Get An Economy from Wigmore Follies on Vimeo. (Hat Tip: Above the Law.)
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Google Map of ABA-Approved Law Schools
Julie Jones (Cornell Law Librarian) has created this cool Google map of all ABA-approved law schools.
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More on Clickers in the Law School Classroom
As regular readers of this blog know, I am a zealous advocate of clickers (Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning, 54 J. Legal Educ. 551 (2004)). Indeed, I am even more convinced of their effectiveness after using them for six years at three law schools and demonstrating their use at faculty…
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Northwestern Battles ABA Over Tenure for Clinical Faculty & Library Director
Inside Higher Ed: Calling in the Big Guns, by Doug Lederman: The battle has raged for several years over the ABA's standards on the hiring and employment of faculty members. On one side, many law deans have argued that the requirements represent unwarranted intrusion in their schools' affairs, and drive up costs. On the other…
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Taylor: Faith in God Hurts Law School Academic Performance
Tax Prof Scott A. Taylor (University of St. Thomas) has published Spirituality and Academic Performance at a Catholic Law School: An Empirical Study, 45 Cal. W. L. Rev. 89 (2008). Here is the abstract: This empirical study explores whether a student's spirituality affects academic performance during the first year of study at the University of St. Thomas…
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Zinnecker: Tax Advice for Visiting Professors
Timothy R. Zinnecker (South Texas) warns: Visiting Profs: Have You Filed Your Non-Resident Income Tax Returns?: This is the season when many schools look for visitors to fill curricular needs for the upcoming academic year. … In addition to negotiating a course package, prospective visitors often request a salary supplement that will adequately cover relocation, housing, and…
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Lake
WobegonMichigan: 50 Years of Grade InflationThe latest issue of the Law Quadrangle from the University of Michigan Law School has a great chart showing the impact of grade inflation over the past fifty years: The changes from the 1950s to today are quite dramatic: The reference in the title is to Garrison Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon — "where all the…
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The Coming Crash in Faculty Scholarship
Al Brophy (North Carolina) has a provocative post on Scholarship After the Fall: In my continuing concern about what the academy will look like after the carnage of the crash is over, I want to turn to where legal scholarship is headed. I thought about titling this post, "The Coming Decline in Publication Requirements" —…
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Secunda: The Law Professor Lateral Hiring Market
Paul M. Secunda (Marquette) has published Tales of a Law Professor Lateral Nothing, 39 U. Mem. L. Rev. 125 (2008). Here is the abstract: This Essay seeks to uncover the mysterious world of the law professor lateral hiring market, which has become increasingly important in the last number of years as law schools seek to…
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Edelman: A Derivatives Market in Legal Academia
Paul H. Edelman (Vanderbilt) has published A Derivatives Market in Legal Academia, 12 Green Bag 2d 157 (2009). Here is the abstract: Building on the success of derivatives markets in the financial arena, I show how similar markets can be used to hedge risk in legal academia. Prudent use of these markets will generate cash, mitigate…
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: Obama's Chief Vetter Has His Own Tax Problem Think Tank Reactions to Obama's Tax Plan Forbes: Higher Taxes: Will the Republicans Cry Wolf Again? Eliminating Capital Gain Treatment of Private Equity Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Cohen: Obama's Chief Vetter Does Not Have a Tax Problem More on Obama's Tax Plan GAO: Make…
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Latham & Watkins Lays Off 190 Associates
ABA Journal Above the Law American Lawyer Faculty Lounge Law Blog Wall Street Journal
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NLJ: Law Schools Revamp Grading Policies
National Law Journal: Law Schools Revamp Their Grading Policies; Some Schools Move Away From Letter Grades While Another Makes It Easier to Give More A's: Several leading law schools are retooling their grading policies, with some institutions making major revisions and others merely tweaking their systems.
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Foundation Press Publishes Human Rights Advocacy Stories
Foundation Press has published Human Rights Advocacy Stories (2008), edited by Deena R. Hurwitz (Virginia) & Margaret L. Satterthwaite (NYU), with Doug Ford (Virginia): This book tells the story of fifteen human rights cases from around the world—including cases adjudicated by a court or commission as well as controversies decided outside the courthouse. The cases illustrate…
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NALP: There Are Far Fewer Summer Associate Positions for 2Ls
NALP has released a 20-page report, Perspectives on Fall 2008 Law Student Recruiting: Consistent with the overall weakening of the legal economy, all of the markers that measure the strength of the legal employment market for new lawyers, such as law firm recruiting levels for summer programs and summer program outcomes, trended downward in 2008.…
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Yale Freezes Pay of Faculty Earning > $75k
From a memo sent to Yale faculty and staff by President Richard C. Levin: We will reduce 2009‐2010 budgets by an amount equal to 7.5% of the salaries and benefits of all nonfaculty staff, rather than the 5% announced in December. We expect to achieve this reduction largely through attrition in managerial, professional, clerical, technical, service, and…
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David Brennen Is Dean Finalist at Kentucky
Tax Prof David A. Brennen (Georgia), currently completing a two-year stint as Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools, is one of four finalists for the Kentucky Deanship. David will be making the first on-campus visit on February 26; the final candidate is scheduled to visit on March 9. (One of the other finalists is my former…
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CALI Summer Conference on Law School Computing
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has issued a call for session proposals at its 19th Annual Conference for Law School Computing this summer, June 18-20, at the University of Colorado Law School, in Boulder, Colorado. The theme of this year's conference is Tools for Change. Since joining the CALI Board, I have attended…
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Entry Level Hiring Report
Larry Solum (Illinois) is compiling his annual Entry Level Hiring Report. Please enter your school's information via Survey Monkey. He plans to report preliminary results next week. (For the 2008 report, see here.)
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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
Saturday: WSJ: Why the Frenzy to Buy Near-Bankrupt Sirius? $6b in NOLs CTJ: Securities Transaction Tax Is Good; Elimination of 15% Rate on Capital Gains & Dividends Is Better Brennan & Okamoto: Measuring the Tax Subsidy in Private Equity and Hedge Fund Compensation Kwall Posts Tax Papers on SSRN Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads…
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UC-Berkeley: “A War Zone”
Faculty Hiring Down, But Not For UC Berkeley Competitors (Contra Costa Times): Slumped in a chair in his office, UC Berkeley law Dean Christopher Edley looks relaxed. But Boalt Hall, and the rest of the Berkeley campus, is a war zone. Although the economy is flailing and the tattered state budget has dramatically limited the…
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Should Ethics Be Part of the Law School Rankings?
Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, asks: Should Ethics Be Part of the Law School Rankings?