Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports
This blog highlights academic job openings and covers salaries of professors, salaries of recent law school graduates, recent law review articles and other law school news. It can also be counted on to come up with its own rankings of law schools and law reviews.
Author: Brian Leiter holds the Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a professor of philosophy and founder and director of the Law and Philosophy Program. He also posts at Leiter Reports: A Group Blog. He is one of three editors of the journal Legal Theory and editor of the Routledge Philosophers book series. He is the author of two books—Nietzsche on Morality and Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy—and editor of six others.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Law Schools • University of Texas • Law Professor • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports
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Most Heavily Trafficked Blogs by Law Professors
Blog Emperor Caron, who never met a ranking he didn't like, has updated his periodic report on the blogs run by law professors with the most visitors. Of the top five, four have almost nothing…
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"Nietzsche's Naturalism Reconsidered"
More information and link here for any readers who might be interested in the topic.
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"The Market for Bad Legal Scholarship": Green v. Simon
Bruce Green (Fordham) replies to William Simon's shocking "j'accuse" that we noted last year. I'm not sure Professor Simon comes off looking too good after Professor Green is done, but I readily admit this is…
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Jason Solomon (Georgia) is Gunning for Yale...
...on grounds that their faculty may be outstanding, but the education ain't great. I don't know how much credence we ought to put in the Princeton Review 'student satisfaction' data, but he's probably right that…
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A 3-Year JD/MBA?
Lawrence Cunningham (George Washington) comments.
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Congratulations to my colleague Martha Nussbaum...
...who is the only American legal academic to be elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy this year. She joins three other Chicago Law faculty to share that honor: Professor R.H. Helmholz and Senior…
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Law and Philosophy Workshop at Chicago Addendum
Two incoming students e-mailed about the Law and Philosophy Workshop (mentioned here). This is not, I'm afraid, open to 1Ls to take for credit, but students are welcome to sit in on the sessions. I…
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The "Cravath System" and Lawyer Salaries
More insightful stuff from Bill Henderson (Indiana/Bloomington).
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Visiting Professors at the Very Top Law Schools, 2008-09
SOME MISTAKES HAVE ALREADY BEEN CORRECTED IN THE LISTS BELOW SINCE THIS MORNING As I did last year, I'm posting a list of the visiting professors (who hold university appointments elsewhere) at the top six…
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My Teaching at Chicago Next Year
A couple of folks have asked about my law & philosophy offerings, so here's what's on the agenda at this point: I'll be doing the "Law and Philosophy Workshop" all year on the topic "Toleration…