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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2011 1 Comment

From The Cornell Sun:Although Cornell’s female faculty report higher levels of satisfaction than they did in 2005, male faculty still say they are happier with their jobs than their female colleagues are, according to the results of the 2010 Faculty Work Life Survey.Looking at the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2011 21 Comments

There is a controversy at Widener Law School regarding calls for the dismissal of a law professor who, in trying to get the students to understand the law, used a hypothetical example in criminal law class in which the professor killed the Dean.As argued by law...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 15 Comments

I'm not going to repeat all the background; read my prior posts:The Original Sherrod Clip Was Not "False" Shirley Sherrod May Prefer The Life Left UnexaminedShirley Sherrod Catches Andrew Breitbart's Car Where we are today is that last Friday Sherrod filed and this weekend served...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 6 Comments

..."You don't know how lucky you are, boy Back in the USSR, yeah"It was just a song.  But to Brian Leiter, a law and philosophy professor at the University of Chicago who frequently takes swipes and swings at conservatives, it had a ring of truth...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2011 29 Comments

Medical malpractice tort reform is one of those supposed remedies frequently mentioned as a cure to lowering health care costs.  Currently being debated is H.R. 5 (most recent mark up here) which would create a federal medical malpractice reform modeled on what has taken place...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2011 22 Comments

Shocking news from the frontlines of the anti-discrimination battles.  Liberals -- particularly in academia and the social sciences -- have a tribal mentality which results in discrimination against conservatives.What is shocking is not that such tribal mentality exists, but that anyone is expressing surprise.As reported by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2011 15 Comments

I know, you want to finish the sentence "can live without 'em."So those of you who have preconceived notions that lawyers have it one up on the rest of you, and for no good reason, will find confirmation of sorts in this interview by Prof....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2010 4 Comments

Three law professors have established a website (h/t RightCoast via Instapundit) where people can calculate how much they are saving by the extension of the current marginal tax rates and then donate that amount to one of four selected charities.The website, GiveItBackForJobs.org, states that the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2010 3 Comments

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is an association, er, of American law schools.  The AALS annual meeting, which is held early in January, is a big event in the law professor community.I first posted about the AALS annual meeting back in November 2008, when some law...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 23, 2010 42 Comments

I wasn't going to post on this, because I figured there had been enough publicity for him already.  But now that I see (via Instapundit and TaxProf) that the controversy has made its way into Forbes and many major websites, I'll weigh in on the case of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2010 4 Comments

Today is al-Quds Day, the day on which the anti-Israel rejectionist front hopes for the destruction of Israel and the liberation of Jerusalem.  On this day, Mahmood Ahmadinejad gave a speech in celebration of al-Quds Day declaring that "the Zionists are groups of hypocrite racists who have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 21 Comments

Ethan Haines is a law school graduate who blogs at unemployedJD.com, a website devoted to the plight of law students who graduate with loads of student loan debt and few job prospects.Glenn Reynolds has written of the higher education bubble in general, and law student...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2010 6 Comments

Wow, just received a "preview" of Wikio's new Law ranking category, and guess who is No. 2?.nobrtable br { display: none }1SCOTUSblog2Legal Insurrection3TaxProf Blog4The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times5Above the Law6Concurring Opinions7PrawfsBlawg8Sentencing Law and Policy9Of Arms and the Law10Truth on the Market11Technology & Marketing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2010 8 Comments

(Please try not to fall asleep while reading this post.)There is something profoundly depressing about the nomination of Elena Kagan.Kagan has an impressive resume. But ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2010 1 Comment

Talk about spin, the headlines are screaming 69 law school deans endorse Kagan in letter to Senate:The deans of more than one-third of the nation's law schools have endorsed Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, issuing a public letter that praises her legal analysis,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2010 4 Comments

I certainly understand why Helen Thomas' comments that Jews should get the hell out of Palestine and go back to Germany and Poland have created such a stir.But really, don't lose sight of the fact that by anti-Israeli standards, Thomas is a moderate.Thomas merely wants...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2010 5 Comments

The Obama administration is beginning to push back against the accusation by four law professors that Elena Kagan had a discriminatory hiring record while Dean of Harvard Law School.I highlighted these claims -- and the paucity of logic behind them -- in my prior post,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2010 12 Comments

Strange. I'm not sure I support Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, assuming she is the nominee, but I'm already finding myself having to defend her.If Elena Kagan were a liberal legal hero, with a long record of reaching the correct conclusions from the left-wing...

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