According to Tun-Jen Chiang’s PrawfsBlog post, Amicus Briefs and the Academic-Judge Divide, law prof amicus briefs are just as, if not more, irrelevant then their scholarly law journal output. “In discussions about the supposed uselessness of legal scholarship to judges,…
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Chapter Three in the Continuing Baltimore Law Saga: "Junking the Stats" in Public "Cockfight" between UB President and Fired UB Law Dean
03
Aug
In yesterday’s ATL post about the University of Baltimore’s ouster of UB Law Dean Closius, Elis Mystal comments that “these kinds of ‘juking the stats’ discussions are usually handled behind closed doors, but now we all get to see it.”…
NALP on ABA Job Reporting: Not So Fast There Buddy
02
Aug
There is at least one or more angles to the ABA upping its law school data placement information I’d like to mention. See Joe’s post from earlier today, ABA Revises Law School Placement Data Reporting Requirements. The first is that…
Why is Law School Hiring So Pedigree-Sensitive?
22
Jul
JK O’Connor start his Off the Quad post, Disciplinary Diversity & Pedigree Consciousness: A Few Thoughts stating “Count me among those who think there is a significant pipeline problem in the legal academia” and ends it with Perhaps self-interest comes…
Near Real-Time Link Rot, AALL-Style: Time to Bury the Antitrust Compliance Policy Statement: Talk about Transparency and Accountability!
18
Jul
Since Library Consumer Advocacy Caucus Chair Michael Ginsborg posted his link to AALL’s AALL Antitrust Compliance Policy, which was live earlier this morning when his post was republished on LLB, the link is now dead. It will send you to…
Tiananmen Square, AALL-Style: AALL’s Proposed Antitrust Compliance Policy, Consumer Advocacy Initiatives and the First Amendment to the US Constitution
18
Jul
It appears Round 2 of AALL’s antitrustism will commence at our association’s July 21, 2011 Executive Board meeting. On the Library Consumer Advocacy Caucus blog, Caucus Chair Michael Ginsborg reports on recent developments. His July 17, 2011 post is republished…
Law Prof Miffed at CJ Roberts’ Characterization of Legal Scholarship as Being Irrelevant
12
Jul
Quoting from the Concurring Opinions post, Sherrilyn Ifill on What the Chief Justice Should Read on Summer Vacation: [M]ore often than not, published law review articles offer muscular critiques on contemporary legal doctrine, alternative approaches to solving complex legal questions,…
US Librarians, 1880-2009: Historical Census Data Post from OUP Blog
09
Jul
Brian Herzog calls attention to a recent OUP blog post that provides occupational census data about US librarians from 1880-2009 on Swiss Army Librarian. He writes “Even if you just skim the graphs, I think you’ll be hooked.” I was….
Data Caps Killed My Internet Redux
I’ve been reading the commentary of Andrew Vrignaud highlighted in Joe Hodnicki’s July 25,2011 post A New Genre: ISP Data Cap Policy Killed My Internet. Many major ISPs introduced data caps over the last few years. AT&T, one of the…
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