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.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Law Schools • University of Chicago • Law Professor • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports
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More Fun with SSRN Downloads
Here, covering schools ranked by US News in the low 20s to 100. Since it's the boring dog days of summer, and Inspired by Professor Crawford, here's how the US News "top 15" ranks according…
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Rutgers Legal Historian Mark Weiner Chosen as Chancellor's Distinguished Scholar for 2009-10
The Rutgers-Newark press release is here. Mark is one of the most creative and interesting legal historians around, and the honor is richly deserved.
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Henderson on Salary Distributions for the Class of 2008
Here. Informative, as always.
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The Illinois Legislature's Higher Education Scholarship Boondoggle
A colleague at the University of Illinois writes: An aspect of the admissions ruckus at UI that is not getting nearly enough attention is that each member of the legislature has two 4 year full…
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Right-Wing Crazies Go Crazy About Sunstein!
Senator Chambliss of Georgia has placed a "hold" on his nomination, and this site gives an indication of what's driving these folks wild. The ironies here are immense: Sunstein is a 'moderate' (by US standards)…
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DePaul Deanship Fiasco Update--More on Provost Epp's Heavy-Handed Tactics
(Start here for earlier coverage.) Trouble between former DePaul Law Dean Weissenberger and DePaul Provost Epp goes back to at least January of this year, when Provost Epp gave Weissenberger 24 hours to rescind several…
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The Chicago Tribune Series on Political Muscle and U of Illinois Admissions
The Chicago Tribune has run a series of articles (start here and follow the links) on the use of political clout to get sub-par students admitted to the University of Illinois (including the law school),…
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University of North Texas to Open New Public Law School in Dallas
It's now official. SMU has a niche in the Dallas market that will be unaffected by this development, I imagine; the bigger risk is for Texas Wesleyan, which is also private, but not as old…
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Illinois Appellate Judge Warren Wolfson Named Interim Dean at DePaul
The DePaul press release is here. His academic experience is, not surprisingly, very minimal (he has been an adjunct at Chicago-Kent and a trial advocacy instructor at the University of Chicago); he is primarily a…
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A new look for the blog
There are still some kinks to be worked out, including the fact that a very old post about Illinois admissions has showed up at the top. Patience please! Thanks.