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Good piece. It makes the Second Amendment fetishists seem amazingly quaint and out of touch.
Our Inalienable Rights Are Lost Forever
I have posted on SSRN a short essay titled, Our Inalienable Rights Can Never Be Recovered. The link is: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2311251 I'd appreciate comments, here or at lawmhf@hofstra.edu.
The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (http://www.law.georgetown.edu/academics/law-journals/gjle/index.cfm) is the leading journal on legal ethics. St. Mary's Law Journal publishes an annual special issue as the Journal on Legal Malpractice and Ethics. (http://www.stmaryslawjournal.org/recent_issues_legal_malpractice.aspx)
Applied Ethics Journals
This is merely a request for information. I know that there are lots and lots of applied ethics journals covering bioethics, health care ethics, global ethics, environmental ethics, business ethics, health care ethics, ethics of war and conflict and many other types of applied ethics and applied ...
It's "The Use of Unethical and Unconstitutional Practices and Policies by Prosecutors' Offices," http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2017178&
Posting on SSRN
Monroe Freedman, The Use of Unethical and Unconstitutional Practices and Policies by Prosecutors' Offices. This article deals with three kinds of unethical and unconstitutional practices and policies of prosecutors’ offices: (1) Cases in which a prosecutor, in the heat of a trial, unintention...
I just met with a Wolters Kluwer rep yesterday and I'm quite excited about trying the smart ebooks next semester. One red flag though: I just tried to access the review copy of the casebook I'm using this semester, only to find that www.aspenlaw.com is down, making the book inaccessible. Students can go ballistic over that sort of thing.
E-Books in Law Teaching
I just attended a presentation by some folks from Wolters Kluwer about their SMARTe textbook editions. There were some interesting features demonstrated, and some useful discussion of appropriate pricing of these e-books vis-a-vis the hard copy counterparts. Also in the discussion were some co...
I'm not sure about "recrimination," but from my conversations with some of the authors on this forum and in other contexts, I think many of those who write about these topics find they are, in fact, the only one who is thinking about these issues at their law school. Your dismissal of Robinson's comments because he is not a law professor, however, is quite typical, and coming from our faculty colleagues is another source of frustration for many of us.
I agree completely with you that we ought not to rush headlong into radical changes. I don't agree, though, that the proper academic response is to bury our heads in the sand and not contemplate any changes. One response might be to undertake scenario planning as opposed to strategic planning: try to envision a number of possible futures, and prepare to be flexible enough to respond in a variety of ways as the way forward becomes clearer. In my experience, though, most faculty seem to assume that the changes in the legal market are temporary and at any rate need not affect the privileged lifestyle we have as law faculty.
Unbundling, turf battles, and the decline of law as an information profession
Jim Milles Like Cassandra Burke Robertson, I had another life before becoming a law professor full-time. Working as a law librarian for 25 years at three different law schools gave me a different perspective, within the system of legal education while not fully part of it. This post reflects th...
Really? I wouldn't accept the premise of the question. I've too often seen charges of irrationality used to shut down women at faculty meetings who are "too emotional" and "take things too personally." "Irrationality" is notoriously loaded with gendered assumptions.
How to Deal With an Irrational Faculty Colleague
A reader over at Lifehacker asks, "How Do I Get Out of an Argument with an Irrational Person?" The advice boils down to this: In the real world, the best way to win when someone gets irrational is to keep your calm, exit the conversation skillfully while leaving the option open to future discus...
In view of all the current debates about the skyrocketing cost of legal education, massive student debt, and whether the current recession in the legal market is in fact a long-term, if not permanent, downturn, are any schools questioning whether we should really be continuing the hiring business-as-usual?
Submitting Your FAR - Might Being Late Help?
Tim finishes his post below about the FAR being due in less than thirty days with the basic advice: "Don't be late!" That sounds about as sensible as it gets, and I would never have questioned it . . . until I was on the appointments committee last year. And now maybe I'm wondering if really s...
Both of the laterals hired by Buffalo are women.
2010 Law School Faculty Lateral Moves
Updated 9/30/10 and moved to the top It's that time again: the annual compilation of law school faculty movement. As always, I am indebted to the other bloggers who publish this information and those of you who reach out to give me news. Brian Leiter - at this point, my primary source for thi...
Add Kim Diana Connolly to Buffalo from South Carolina.
2010 Law School Faculty Lateral Moves
Updated 9/30/10 and moved to the top It's that time again: the annual compilation of law school faculty movement. As always, I am indebted to the other bloggers who publish this information and those of you who reach out to give me news. Brian Leiter - at this point, my primary source for thi...
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