tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post7107621252046302803..comments2023-10-23T18:40:13.347-04:00Comments on CLASS BIAS AND RANDOM THINGS LAW REVIEW: Do Elites Think?Jeffrey Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11647017160134065739noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post-86282477545435821222007-11-10T09:09:00.000-05:002007-11-10T09:09:00.000-05:00Note to the Admiral:Your comment has been posted u...Note to the Admiral:<BR/><BR/>Your comment has been posted under Anonymous because I had a computer/blog glitch. Sorry. If you care to comment, though, I am not sure what "it" is in the last sentence. Does not mean you do not hold the fact that they did not mention their schools against them? That is the way it reads. Or, does it mean that going to elite schools should not be held against them? <BR/><BR/>If it is the latter, I'd like to clarify my position. My objective is to hire the best law professors. It is not the School per se that I object to but the experience UF and other schools have had when adopting a policy of elites only. I am sure these are fine people. The problem is that credentials do not predict success. In fact, if you make a list of current and former UF profs that this hiring committee would not hire because of its elites only policy, you would find, in my opinion, a better faculty than the one at UF now. This is not true of UF only. A policy that systematically passes over exceptional people at non elite schools is not likely to end up with the best law professors.Jeffrey Harrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647017160134065739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post-22910270852430151492007-11-10T00:10:00.000-05:002007-11-10T00:10:00.000-05:00Thanks for your comment. It's great that the stude...Thanks for your comment. It's great that the students do not go for appeals to institutional authority. That puts you ahead of the faculty for whom it remains critical. Actually, though I am not surprised. UF students are excellent quick to understand what's important.<BR/><BR/>I would not read too much into the decision not to name drop in the interview. The candidates have already used appeals to institutional authority to be interviewed in DC and to be called back. All of their references -- some of whom are not reliable (see my post, "Fish," on moneylaw) are ultimately appeals to authority. Finally, I am pretty sure they believed that you already knew the schools so why rub it in?Jeffrey Harrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647017160134065739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post-60641019709529361402007-11-10T00:09:00.000-05:002007-11-10T00:09:00.000-05:00While I sympathize with this post, I thought I oug...While I sympathize with this post, I thought I ought to mention that none of the two candidates who have come to UF so far, at least in the student meetings, have mentioned the proper name for their law school at all. In fact, both seemed to go out of their way to say "where I went to school" or "at my law school" or something along those lines. We liked that, but I don't think we should hold it against them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post-57981690253715022222007-11-09T08:11:00.000-05:002007-11-09T08:11:00.000-05:00I think he got his B.A. at Northern Iowa, and his ...I think he got his B.A. at Northern Iowa, and his M.A. at Northern Illinois.<BR/><BR/>Despite those poor credentials, however, he is most assuredly very bright.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14100628707294599118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post-88465598421926439662007-11-09T01:18:00.000-05:002007-11-09T01:18:00.000-05:00Did Will go to Harvard (or Yale etc.)? Becuase if...Did Will go to Harvard (or Yale etc.)? Becuase if he did, then I'm not sure that it's necessary to say that he's a "very bright guy."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post-85613728356275488622007-11-08T22:16:00.000-05:002007-11-08T22:16:00.000-05:00right now I am trying to find some distinction bet...<I>right now I am trying to find some distinction between being content and being happy.</I><BR/><BR/>I've been seeing a psychologist (Ph.D. South Carolina, in case you wondered) precisely to resolve the same question. If you would be kind enough to post the answer once you figure it out, it would save me an hour, and a $20 co-pay, every week.emfinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13867009328118642419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post-38784159100931563422007-11-08T20:34:00.000-05:002007-11-08T20:34:00.000-05:00I know your question re: "happy" and "content" isn...I know your question re: "happy" and "content" isn't the point of this post, but Will Wilkinson maintains a blog dedicated to happiness research and its impact on public policy.<BR/><BR/>Will's a very bright guy who's read just about everything in the happiness literature. <BR/><BR/>The blog is: <BR/><BR/>http://happinesspolicy.com/<BR/><BR/>Enjoy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post-79167349166448446752007-11-08T12:33:00.000-05:002007-11-08T12:33:00.000-05:00But if you heard someone got their degree from Dev...But if you heard someone got their degree from Devry, the chances are you would ignore what they said. Where someone went does matter in as much as it matters to prove you got a quality education. I do believe you can get a quality education outside of the ivy league or elite schools but you do need to know someone's credentials just to make sure they have got a quality education as opposed to a degree from a diploma farm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com