Elizabeth Mertz, Frances Tung, Katherine Barnes, Wamucii Njogu, Molly Heiler, Joanne Martin, After Tenure: Post-Tenure Law Professors in the United States (American Bar Foundation 2011)
The After Tenure Study, jointly funded by the ABF and LSAC, is the first in-depth examination of the lives of post-tenure law professors in the United States. It combines a national survey of post-tenure law professors in the U.S. (undertaken in 2005-2006) with a set of follow-up interviews (conducted with a subset of the survey respondents in 2007-2008). A total of 1175 professors responded to the initial survey; their responses provide the basis of this Project Report, which contains descriptive statistics from our first quantitative analyses. Future reports and articles will provide further quantitative and qualitative results.
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In addition to their teaching and research duties, tenured law professors also reported devoting time to advancing their careers. Over one-third of our sample often attended professional conferences and communicated with colleagues in their field. About 36% of the law professors in our survey reported that they often send out reprints, usually to a selected network rather than to a broad mailing list. Some professors said they gave talks at other schools.
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The Faculty Lounge is having a conversation about Establishing A Writing Regimen, July 27, 2011.
Jeff Lipshaw, Law Review Submission for Satisficers: A Summer Placement Narrative, PrawfsBlawg, July 29, 2011.
This is a narrative about submitting and placing a traditional law review article in a general student-edited law review over the summer, a process I just completed this morning. With some hesitance about giving TMI on how the sausage gets made, I post it as a contribution to the available data about the process.
Eugene Volokh and others comment on Humor in Legal Writing, July 21, 2011.
