Musical Chairs: Linda Greenhouse in Da House at Yale Law
We have a strange obsession with Linda Greenhouse, the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. When we spotted her recently at Jennifer 8. Lee’s D.C. book talk for The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, we practically leapt out of our seats in excitement. [FN1]
If you’re a fellow LG groupie, and if you’re at Yale Law School, here’s some good news. As one tipster excitedly chirped to us, “Linda Greenhouse is going to be a Yale Law sort-of-professor!” From the Yale Daily News:
After 30 years covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winner Linda Greenhouse will take a new post as a journalist-in-residence and senior fellow at Yale Law School starting next January, the Law School announced Wednesday.Greenhouse, who accepted a buyout from The Times last month, will return to the law school from which she earned a Master of Studies in Law degree in 1978 to conduct her own research and give lectures and seminars, although it is not yet clear whether she will teach a formal course. She will also be involved with the Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic and will help pioneer its new Law and Media Program.
More details in the YLS press release. Surely this can only help Yale maintain its sizable lead over #2 Harvard and Stanford in the U.S. News rankings. (Yale has an overall score of 100, with Harvard and Stanford almost ten points behind, at 91.)
As you may recall, Linda Greenhouse received a cool $300K in her Times buyout. It’s a pittance compared to Biglaw bucks, but a princely sum in the world of journalism.
And now Greenhouse will be supplementing this with a draw on the well-endowed coffers of YLS — we’re guessing low six-figures (for what doesn’t sound like very much work). She’ll probably begin work on another book, too, for which she can expect a good-sized advance. Her last book, Becoming Justice Blackmun, was a national bestseller.
Linda Greenhouse to Linda Greenbacks!
[FN1] The use of “we” is especially appropriate here because Kash and I attended this reading together.
Yale Law School nabs Linda Greenhouse after Times departure [Yale Daily News]
Linda Greenhouse Returning To Yale Law School in 2009 as Journalist-in-Residence [Yale Law School]
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Less Lat. More Kash.
Less Lat. More Kash. Nice $$ for Linda Greenbacks.
Yale is a TTT.
That photo of Linda needs to be replaced by a photo of Kash before my monitor cracks.
Kash (if she were in law school or a lawyer) would be lawyer hot. Outside of law, she's cute.
12:25: Kash - were she a lawyer or a law student - would in fact be lawyer hot. Outside of law, she's cute and pretty hot, especially when you consider she's more than just a pretty face. You've got to be less superficial and look beyond just the surface.
Greenhouse to $190K
Woah - attending book signings together? Might Lat and Kash be an item???
I sat 2 rows behind LG 2 weeks ago at a lethal injection symposium at Fordham. She was checking her Yahoo mail on her laptop all through the panel discussions, but I wasn't quite close enough to read over her shoulder.
Only is Kash has a penis, 12:39.
12:39 - Kash is most definitely a female, so not Lat's type I don't think.
12:40 - I wonder if UChicago made her an offer than she declined once she learned there'd be no internet in classrooms.
Lat - Seriously, that photo should be labeled NSFW. There isn't one available that makers her look slightly less... grotesque?
I'd tap that!
. . . Lat hears crickets chirping . . .
Holy crap, Yale has a Supreme Court workshop? What the f is that? Does it prepare students to one day be SCOTUS clerks and/or justices, or prepare them for their inevitable arguments before the bench?
Jesus, my TTT sets its sights just a little bit lower, I have a PI lawyer teaching me how to draft complaints and argue motions in a trial court. Boy don't I ever feel like an un-prestigious douche.
Is this a concession that every other use of "we" was an exaggeration? It's okay - we love you lat/kash
This should hurt Yale... Harold Koh seems to be taking the opposite approach to Elena Kagan w/r/t hiring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcXgLuKrZpI
Maybe she can finally get a JD now....
1:25, it also has a Constitutional Litigation seminar, taught by two Second Circuit judges, basically just to prepare you to argue impact litigation before the Court.
1:40, co-sign. Koh loses several professors in a few weeks, and he responds by hiring a journalist?
Koh's figuring he'll be on the SCOTUS within a year.
What do you mean "especially" appriopriate here? This is the first time it has EVER been appriopriate on this blog. Please, stop with the we crap. It's stupid. It's a cliche. And it often makes no sense since you use it not only to signify an opinion ("we believe this story is fabulous!"), but also to signify facts ("we took her class in law school and loved it").
3:51 needs to unbunch its panties, we say.
12:43, maybe Kash has caused Lat to "see the light" so to speak. She is just irresistable!
Huge day for Yale,
Merrill from CLS and now this
Can we get a thread dedicated to divulging more info on Kash? Just the basics, likes, dislikes, current sexual preferences and more photos....
Becoming Justice Blackmun was a damn good book! Loves me some L.G.
We are tired of we:
How is it a cliche? What other blog does that? If he used first person, it wouldn't be Lat, and this wouldn't be ATL. Go read some other blog if you don't like it.
Also, I think it's a related remnant of A3G, who would refer to "herself" in the third person. I miss "her." :-(
Btw, use of the royal "we" is fabulous.