| January 31, 2012 |
The Jewish Law Association in conjunction with the Yale University Program in Judaic Studies will hold the 17th International conference of the JLA at the Yale University Law School July 30 – Aug. 2, 2012. Paper proposals are due by Jan. 31, 2012. Jump to full post
| July 30, 2012 | to | August 2, 2012 |
The Jewish Law Association in conjunction with the Yale University Program in Judaic Studies will hold the 17th International conference of the JLA at the Yale University Law School July 30 – Aug. 2, 2012. Paper proposals are due by Jan. 31, 2012. Jump to full post
The Jewish Law Association in conjunction with the Yale University Program in Judaic Studies will hold the 17th International conference of the JLA at the Yale University Law School July 30 – Aug. 2, 2012. Paper proposals are due by Jan. 31, 2012. Jump to full post
| September 23, 2011 |
Tom Eisele (Cincinnati Law) presents “Torn on Teaching.”
This paper is not publicly available.
Jill Hasday (Minnesota Law) presents “Progress Narratives for Adults.”
This paper is not publicly available.
Amanda Frost (American Law) presents “Congress in Court.”
This paper is not publicly available.
Tom Lyon (USC Law) presents “Child Witnesses and the Confrontation Clause.”
This paper is not publicly available.
Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies
Shima Baradaran (Brigham Young Law) presents “The Causes of Compliance in International Relations: Evidence from a Field Experiment on a Financial Transparency.”
This paper is not publicly available.
Tom Eisele (Cincinnati Law) presents “Torn on Teaching.”
This paper is not publicly available.
Jill Hasday (Minnesota Law) presents “Progress Narratives for Adults.”
This paper is not publicly available.
Amanda Frost (American Law) presents “Congress in Court.”
This paper is not publicly available.
Tom Lyon (USC Law) presents “Child Witnesses and the Confrontation Clause.”
This paper is not publicly available.
Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies
Shima Baradaran (Brigham Young Law) presents “The Causes of Compliance in International Relations: Evidence from a Field Experiment on a Financial Transparency.”
This paper is not publicly available.
| September 23, 2011 |
The University of St. Thomas Law Journal held its fall symposium, The Lawyer’s Role and Professional Formation, today, Sept. 23, 2011.
At a time of wrenching change in the legal profession, there is a pressing need to step back and ask foundational questions about the nature of the lawyer’s role in society and how that role should shape the way we educate and form lawyers. The symposium gathers many of the leading scholars who are working to help clarify our understanding of the lawyer’s work and to chart the future course of legal education. Often the more theoretical conversations about the nature of the lawyer’s role proceed separately from the more practical conversations about the future course of legal education. This symposium brings both conversations together in what promises to be an energized and productive new dialogue. This is a Medtronic Business and Law Roundtable and a Law Journal Symposium cosponsored by the Holloran Center.
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The University of St. Thomas Law Journal held its fall symposium, The Lawyer’s Role and Professional Formation, today, Sept. 23, 2011.
At a time of wrenching change in the legal profession, there is a pressing need to step back and ask foundational questions about the nature of the lawyer’s role in society and how that role should shape the way we educate and form lawyers. The symposium gathers many of the leading scholars who are working to help clarify our understanding of the lawyer’s work and to chart the future course of legal education. Often the more theoretical conversations about the nature of the lawyer’s role proceed separately from the more practical conversations about the future course of legal education. This symposium brings both conversations together in what promises to be an energized and productive new dialogue. This is a Medtronic Business and Law Roundtable and a Law Journal Symposium cosponsored by the Holloran Center.
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Chris Beneke offers advice to academic book reviewers: Thou Shalt Review Books Responsibly, The Historical Society, July 29, 2011.
Colin Miller asks: Burying the Lead?: Does a C.V. Listing “Lead Article” Status Make You Think More Favorably, Less Favorably, or No Differently About a Person?, PrawfsBlawg, Sept. 2, 2011. The consensus of Prof. Miller and the people who posted comments is unfavorable to the practice. Being the lead article often indicates nothing. And bragging about it seems, well, unseemly.
Bryan A. Garner presents his annual list of law journal bloopers and suggests a reform:
Of all the editorial reforms that a law review might adopt, the most beneficial would be to require line editors to justify their edits with brief notations citing usage guides. This policy would eliminate nearly all edits that introduce errors into manuscripts . . . .
Bryan A. Garner, Reforming the Law Reviews, Stud. Law., May 2011, at 18.
Two scholars analyze the early publishing careers of economists:
Michael J. Hilmer & Chritiana E. Hilmer, Is It Where You Go or Who You Know? On the Relationship Between Students, Ph.D. Program Quality, Dissertation Advisor Prominence, and Early Career Publishing Success, 30 Econ. Educ. Rev. 991 (2011)
Abstract: Previous research finds that both Ph.D. program quality and relative dissertation advisor prominence are positively related to early-career publishing success. We provide insight into the relative importance of those factors by estimating early-career research productivity functions that: (1) allow relative dissertation advisor prominence to vary while holding Ph.D. program quality constant and (2) allow Ph.D. program quality to vary while holding relative dissertation advisor prominence constant. Results for a sample of 2983 economics Ph.D. recipients suggest that: (1) the estimated marginal effects of relative dissertation advisor prominence do not vary systematically within top Ph.D. programs and (2) students graduating from a program-switching advisor”s higher-ranked program publish significantly more than those graduating from his or her lower-ranked program. Combined, these results might suggest that the observed correlation between dissertation advisor prominence and early-career publishing results more from students working with prominent advisors possessing the higher innate potential required to gain admission to top programs rather than strictly because they work with the more prominent advisor.
A professor of creative writing muses about scholars who say they’ve been told that they write too well. What’s really going on? Different possibilities include that the piece is overwritten or it is written well but the analysis or research are inadequate. Rachel Toor, The Problem Is: You Write to Well, Chron. Higher Educ., Sept. 6, 2011.
[I]f someone ever tells you that you write too well, ask him for an explanation and be prepared to hear something that will cause you to do more work.
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