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Saturday, May 18, 2024

Part 6: Is There Too Much Legal Scholarship: The Research Impact Statement

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   Is There a Way Out of Here? The Research Impact Statement The short answer is that without of a complete restructuring of legal educati...

Part 5, Is There Too Much Legal Scholarship: What Accounts For Too Much of the Wrong Type of Scholarship

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  Part 5   Is There Too Much Legal Scholarship:   What Accounts for Too Much of the Wrong Type of Scholarship?               A perfect aca...
Friday, May 17, 2024

Part 4: Is There Too Much Legal Scholarship? Justifications for Legal Scholarship

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  Part 4: Is There Too Much Legal Scholarship?  Justifications for Legal Scholarship There are many arguments in response to the position ...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Part 3: Is There Too Much Legal Scholarship: The Costs and Qualities of Legal Research

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  Part 3: Is There Too Much Legal Scholarship:  The Costs and Qualities of Legal Research               Before examining arguments in supp...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Part 2: Is There Too Much Legal “Scholarship”?: A Quasi Economic Perspective The Author and the Audience: Supply, Demand, and Public Goods

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   Part 2: Is There Too Much Legal “Scholarship”?: A Quasi Economic Perspective   The Author and the Audience: Supply, Demand, and Public Go...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Is There Too Much Legal “Scholarship”?: A Quasi Economic Perspective

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Is There Too Much Legal “Scholarship”?: A Quasi Economic Perspective   PART 1 Introduction Discussions about the value of legal scholars...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Florida's Slide in the Rankings: Collateral Damage of the Rankings Obsession

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 UF Law slide from 21 to 28 in the US News Law School Rankings. Twenty-eight is not so bad and it, at least, avoids the dreaded 30. (I don...
Sunday, April 02, 2023

Class Bias and the Deanship of Laura Rosenbury

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   Laura Rosenbury became the Dean of UF law after a failed search in which the central administration was pushing of all people, Alex Acost...
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Sunday, October 16, 2022

Ben Sasse and Paper Tigers in Academia

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 This quote caught my eye in the Gainesville Sun today. It is about, Ben Sasse,  the likely new president of UF, and faculty opposition: ...
Monday, May 02, 2022

No Heroes at UF: The DeSantification of a University

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 I cannot help but think of Joseph  Welch and his historic face off with Joseph McCarthy when he finally said, in effect, ENOUGH, "Have...
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Monday, April 18, 2022

NO, You Cannot be a Law Professor

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                                                                      About once a year a student comes to my office to ask about beco...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Something is Wrong at UF LAW

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  The latest Bar exam results show that about 1 of 5 UF law grads fail the bar exam. Maybe that is not so bad but something is amiss. First,...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

I Was Following the Fuhrer's Orders

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 Just heard on the radio that Scott Strickland, UF athletic director (salary in excess of $1 million a year), announced no LSU like restrict...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Structural Nepotism: On the Reluctance of Law Schools to Include Social Class Origins among their Faculty Diversity Goals

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Excerpt for Ken Oldfield's,   "Structural Nepotism: On the Reluctance of Law Schools to Include Social Class Origins among their ...
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Thursday, August 12, 2021

Legal Scholarship, Citations, and the Rankings Obsession

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  I have not thought much about legal scholarship lately but a few months ago my elitist and ratings-obsessed former dean send out a memo to...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Excerpt from "In the Company of Thieves": Cutting In Line for Faculty Appointments

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  Cutting in Line You might think that law professors are sticklers for following the rules. In fact, the opposite is true. They do not re...
Friday, May 07, 2021

Excerpt from In The Company of Thieves: Conferences and Vacation: Confercationing

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               Confercationing is   when law professors claim to be going to a conference on the law school’s dime but are really on a one...
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