Law Professors
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Cass Sunstein, Federal Government, Law Professors, Politics
Quote of the Day (Part 1): Sassy Cass?
Who the f**k says my personality is not like Rahm Emanuel’s? — Cass Sunstein, the University of Chicago Harvard law professor now heading the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). -
Law Professors, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Shameless Plugs
Update: ATL Not Required Reading at Michigan Law
The Washington Post has described ATL as a “must-read legal blog.” And it seemed that this was literally true for students in a course entitled “Law Firms and Legal Careers,” taught at the University of Michigan Law School by Karl Lutz, of counsel to Kirkland & Ellis. The course description on the Michigan Law website […] - Sponsored
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Law Professors, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Shameless Plugs
Quote of the Day: Required Reading
Students are expected to become completely familiar with and prepared to discuss in class the blog “Above the Law.” — From the description for “Law Firms and Legal Careers,” a University of Michigan Law course taught by Kirkland & Ellis of counsel Karl Lutz UPDATE / CORRECTION: According to Lutz, the course description on the […]
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Conferences / Symposia, Election Law, Floyd Abrams, Free Speech, Law Professors, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Why Citizens United Is Not the End of the World
This morning I attended a very interesting panel discussion sponsored by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, Citizens United: Mountain or Mole Hill? Because the talk was sponsored by my rather left-leaning alma mater, I expected the answer to the question presented to be “Mountain” — and not just any […] -
Elena Kagan, Law Professors, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential
Elena Kagan and Me: One Semester of Civ Pro With the New SCOTUS Nominee
I can count myself as one of the thousands of students that had Elena Kagan as a professor. She’s taught at the University of Chicago School of Law and Harvard Law School. I had her in 2000 — before she became Dean of Harvard Law School — for Civil Procedure my first semester 1L year. […] -
Elena Kagan, Law Professors, Merrick Garland, SCOTUS, Sidney Thomas, Supreme Court
What Happens Next to the Unsuccessful Shortlisters?And a correction: Kagan and Dan Meltzer are besties.
Now that the fabulous Elena Kagan has been officially nominated to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, some folks have been wondering: What does the future hold for the unsuccessful shortlisters? Let’s consider them, one by one. 1. Judge Merrick Garland (D.C. Cir.): The brilliant D.C. Circuit judge — practically a “tenth […] -
Elena Kagan, Law Professors, Law Reviews, SCOTUS, Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court
Taking A Closer Look at Elena Kagan's Description of Confirmation Hearings as a 'Vapid and Hollow Charade'
It’s Elena Kagan’s “wise Latina” comment. Just as Court watchers dug up a controversial, eight-year-old statement by Sonia Sotomayor last year, they have unearthed a law review article that Kagan authored in 1995 when she was a young law professor at the University of Chicago. In it, she criticized the Supreme Court confirmation hearings as […] -
Associate Advice, Law Professors, Law Schools, pls hndle thx
Pls Hndle Thx: Hot for Teacher
Ed. note: Have a question for next week? Send it in to advice@abovethelaw.com. Dear ATL, What do you think about becoming a law professor? Is it a good gig? Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that I have an appropriate resume to get hired as a law professor (summa cum laude from a tier-1 […] - Sponsored
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Colbert Report, Free Speech, Law Professors, Quote of the Day, Rudeness
Quote of the Day: Giving the Finger
If somebody is mildly angry, they might just give the middle finger. If they’re very angry, they might give it with some sort of words or facial expression that shows anger. And if they’re off-the-charts angry, they may give a double. — Professor Ira P. Robbins — author of Digitus Impudicus: The Middle Finger and […] -
Books, Duke Lacrosse Team Rape Case, Kids, Law Professors, LSAT, Minority Issues, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.01.10
* What we talk about when we talk about federalism: University of Chicago law professor Alison LaCroix, author of the just-published Ideological Origins of American Federalism, discusses the relevance of federalism for current policy debates. [Political Bookworm / Washington Post] * Speaking of the Founding, if there’s another Constitutional Convention, I demand that all delegates […] -
Law Professors, Law Schools, Screw-Ups, William and Mary School of Law
Hey, Teacher ... Give Those Kids Their Grades!Grades delayed at W&M, UT - Austin... anywhere else?
How long should students have to wait for fall semester grades? Two weeks? A month? Some students at William and Mary School of Law are still waiting for fall semester grades — and they might not be alone. I understand that law professors would rather drink wine straight from the box than grade a paper. […] -
Bill Clinton, Law Professors, Law Schools
All You Ever Wanted To Know About Law School Exams
Ed. note: This is a guest post by Anonymous Law Professor (“ALP”), who may be writing occasionally for these pages. Given how stressed-out law students are right now — as reflected in, among other things, their exam-time tweets — we asked ALP to offer some advice on the dreaded law school exam, from the professorial […] -
Admin, Announcements, Blogging, D. Marvin Jones, Defamation, Free Speech, Law Professors, Lawsuit of the Day, Media and Journalism, Pro Se Litigants
Breaking: Jones v. Minkin Dismissed!!!(Plaintiff voluntarily dismisses lawsuit against ATL.)
Yesterday’s Lawsuit of the Day — Jones v. Minkin, a $44 million lawsuit against yours truly, Above the Law publisher David Minkin, and Dead Horse Media (now known as Breaking Media) — has been voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff, University of Miami law professor Donald Jones. There was NO SETTLEMENT in this case. Above the […]
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Blogging, D. Marvin Jones, Defamation, Free Speech, Law Professors, Lawsuit of the Day, Media and Journalism, Pro Se Litigants
Lawsuit of the Day: Jones v. Minkin(Or: Above the Law gets sued!!!)
For the first time in over three years of operation, Above the Law has been sued. We feel the lawsuit has no merit, but we will not comment further on this ongoing litigation. To access the pro se complaint, coverage by other news outlets and blogs, and ATL’s prior posts about Professor Donald Jones, click […] -
Fabulosity, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Lawyerly Lairs, Milberg Weiss, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: Daniel Fischel's Fabulous New Pad
Law professors generally don’t earn as much as Biglaw partners. Legal academic salaries, while generally in the low six-figures, rarely go over, say, $400,000. But some law profs own very, very nice homes. See, e.g. (in descending order by value): Columbia professor Hans Smit ($30 million mansion — yup, that’s seven zeros); Yale professor James […] -
Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Professors, Law Schools
Boston College Defends Anti-Gay Marriage Professor
Yesterday, we talked about a Boston College Law professor, Scott Fitzgibbon, who went up to Maine to shoot an anti-gay-marriage commercial. John Garvey, Dean of Boston College Law, didn’t respond to us, but he did send around an email to the BC Law community. As many predicted, Dean Garvey defended Professor Fitzgibbon. Here is the […] -
Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Professors, Law Schools
Boston College Law Professor In Anti-Gay Marriage Ad
The gay marriage debate continues to rage in New England, and now a Boston College law professor wants to weigh in. The state of Maine has a ballot proposition about gay marriage this fall, and BC Law Professor Scott T. Fitzgibbon decided to shoot an anti-gay marriage ad. Just to be clear, this is not […] -
Anal Sex / Butt Sex, Gay, Gay Marriage, Kenji Yoshino, Law Professors, Law Schools, Li-ann Thio
Dr. Li-ann Thio: Much Ado About Nothing?
Or close to nothing. That’s the likely enrollment in Human Rights Law in Asia, the course that Dr. Li-ann Thio, the visiting professor from Singapore with controversial views on gay rights, is scheduled to teach at NYU Law School this fall. An NYU law student reports: I think there’s a point everyone is missing about […] -
John Yoo, Law Professors, Media and Journalism, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Did I Miss the Part Where John Yoo Actually Matters?
Berkeley Law School professor (and former Department of Justice attorney) John Yoo published his inaugural column in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday. He argues that Obama should nominate somebody FDR would have liked to the Supreme Court: Franklin Roosevelt faced exactly this dilemma. With large majorities at his back, FDR pushed through sweeping legislative efforts […] -
Fabulosity, Law Professors, Law Schools, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: It's Good To Be King A Law Professor
In these dire times, academia is regarded as a refuge. Sure, endowments are down, some schools have imposed hiring freezes, and budgets are being trimmed here and there. But the academy, especially the legal academy, hasn’t seen anything like the carnage experienced by Biglaw. Take the ivory tower of Columbia Law School, which apparently remains […]