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 is a law professor at the University of Chicago. He also posts at Leiter Reports: A Philosophy 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.
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Recent Posts from Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports
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An Interesting New On-Line Law Review Feature: Scholarly Discussion of Pending Supreme Court Cases
Courtesy of the new "Roundtable" feature from the Vanderbilt Law Review.
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You know you shouldn't look...
...but you won't be able to resist.
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Good luck to those interviewing at the 'meat market'!
There are a few paragraphs here about these interviews you might want to review. It's clearly a tighter year than usual on the academic job market, though the situation is clearly better in academic law…
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Melbourne Law Faculty in Turmoil
Its Dean, James Hathaway (who is on leave from Michigan), has resigned after only 18 months, and the faculty is in an uproar over a proposed reorganization of the faculty (part of broader financial and…
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Should an Aspiring Legal Philosopher Get Only the PhD, or a JD as Well?
A philosophy student posed the question, which I take up on the philosophy blog. It's perhaps worth adding here that every credible candidate with a jurisprudence specialization on the law teaching market now has done…
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Too many law reviews, too many articles to possibly read...
...so Michael Froomkin (Miami) and colleagues will help.
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Law school drop-out makes good...
...in economics.
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The "Regional" Law Schools With an Unusually Good Eye for Faculty Talent
MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCT. 20 IN LIGHT OF UPDATES AND CORRECTIONS (originally posted Oct. 16) Which of the more "regional" law schools (those whose graduates mostly practice in the region where the school is…
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Congratulations...
...to my esteemed colleague M. Todd Henderson, recipient of this year's Paul Bator Award from the Federalist Society. A list of past winners is here.
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The Questions Job Seekers Would *Really* Like to Ask at the Meat Market
This is funny.