The Gradebook (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The initial list of candidates to replace longtime FSU president T.K. Wetherell is in, and the 17 people range from a middle school teacher to a few high-ranking professors and college deans at FSU. The earch committee is slated to...
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A couple of days ago, we mention the new Super Lawyers Law School Rankings . The list ranks law schools by their number of Super Lawyer alumni. At the time, we noted that a potential flaw with the magazine's methodology was that it is just looking at raw numbers. The rankings aren't adjusted for class size. Northwestern Law placed #18 on the list. That's not too bad if you care about things like rankings....
Merry Warriors (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... for success. We know now that you can do nothing and still finish as the head of Harvard Law Review, or win a Nobel Prize, but if you miss an antlered moose, or run out of gas in the tundra, or fall overboard on a salmon boat, there is no Norwegian committee or Harvard Law Dean to bail you out. Such is not an argument for anti-intellectualism or a dismissal of in-depth scholarship and research,...
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... justice who has had the most important impact over the years on how we think and talk about the law,” as the Harvard law dean Elena Kagan, now U.S. Solicitor General, once put it. Scalia electrifies audiences: to hear him speak is to remember him; to read his writing is to find his phrases permanently affixed in one’s mind. But for all his public grandstanding, Scalia has managed to elude...
threedonia.com (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... for success. We know now that you can do nothing and still finish as the head of Harvard Law Review, or win a Nobel Prize, but if you miss an antlered moose, or run out of gas in the tundra, or fall overboard on a salmon boat, there is no Norwegian committee or Harvard Law Dean to bail you out. The last 30 years, we’re becoming a society ruled by the degree, life experience is something...
