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I've often wondered about norms within academia about appropriate uses for tenure letters, particularly in appointments processes involving other schools. I'm thinking particularly about two situations. 1. If Professor X writes a tenure letter in support of Candidate Y's application for tenure, and in the process of reviewing Candidate Y's work and writing the letter, realizes that Candidate Y might be a good fit for an open position at Professor X's school, is there anything unethical about... Posted on November 20, 2009 at 07:58 pm by Jacqueline Lipton

What is a good way of sharing information with your class that is effective and not annoying? I often see news articles, video clips, or blog posts that my be of use to students, but I don't want to email the class list every single time I have something to share. Multiple emails clogging inboxes from professors cannot imaginably be on a list of student wants. Blackboard and TWEN are incredibly useful for providing students with syllabi and reading materials, but are not the best designed sites... Posted on November 20, 2009 at 11:06 am by Kevin Maillard

The University of Iowa College of Law is starting on-campus interviews of candidates for its deanship. The first person coming to campus will be Gregory Mark, a professor and associate dean at Rutgers - Newark. Other individuals will be coming to campus over the next month. The College is being cagey about the identities of these candidates, announcing names between two and six days before each visit. For those of you who want to track this closely, here is the schedule of interviews - with... Posted on November 20, 2009 at 07:55 am by Dan Filler

Here is this week's example of people with too much time on their hands/not enough to do: 100,000 Britons downloading "certificates of de-baptism" as a way of renouncing their unfashionable Christian heritage. The standard reason seems to be that the water ritual was performed when the person was an infant, and is therefore not meaningful. I understand that part - as a teenager, I arranged to get re-baptized partly to make a point that it was my own choice. But I don't get why something that is... Posted on March 29, 2009 at 05:10 pm by Dru Stevenson

This innovative new empircal article, Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate, by a group of professors at the University of Michigan, offers a new way to rank the "influence" of law professors on American society (or at least on our legal system), based on their institutional affiliation. Particularly interesting is the comparison to US News rankings. My favorite part is this amazing graph of the law professor universe: My alma mater is pretty... Posted on March 28, 2009 at 02:53 pm by Dru Stevenson

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From the Government Documents department... In the first Thanksgiving proclamation, George Washington established November 26, 1798 as a day dedicated "to service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be." Read the full text of the proclamation here. Every president since has issued a similar proclamation -- expect for Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, and, most notably, Thomas Jefferson. In 1802, President Jefferson wrote a... Posted on November 20, 2009 at 01:53 am by AskPat

From the Government Documents department... Last month, Senator Russell Feingold, who currently sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to the Government Printing Office (GPO) requesting that the publication of an important legal research tool undergo a revision. That tool is The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation. CONAN, as it's called, is published every ten years as a single volume, with biennial supplements published in the interim. It's... Posted on November 17, 2009 at 06:48 am by AskPat

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Another interesting discussion by J. Russell Jackson (New York City) on his Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts blog, "Florida Federal Court Dismisses Class Action for Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies". The Florida Insurance Statute allows a policyholder to challenge... Posted on November 18, 2009 at 12:26 pm by AdminLaw Blogger

The belief that every wrong should have a remedy pushes courts into the regulatory business when the other branches of government have failed to take effective action and folks are getting shafted. There is much discussion in academia and the... Posted on November 18, 2009 at 11:37 am by AdminLaw Blogger

Criminal matters sometimes arise in an administrative context, and vice versa. Welcome to the seamless web of the law. On his Customs Law blog, Lawrence Friedman (Barnes/Richardson, Chicago) has posted an instructive story, "Seventh Circuit on ITAR". Mr. Pulungan tried... Posted on November 17, 2009 at 02:37 pm by AdminLaw Blogger