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• Off to the Big Dance®

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  For those of you who asked (or might be interested) following my Saturday post on my freshman sons college soccer team: for the first time in school history, the team qualified for the NCAA Division III National Tournament following a second thrilling conference tournament victory in a penalty kick shootout...
  6 hours ago

• More Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  Following up on my August post, Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors (2009-10 Edition): Jonathan Gingerich (J.D. 2010, Harvard) of the Harvard Legal Theory Forum has compiled this very helpful spreadsheet with detailed information (including application deadlines, qualifications, salaries, and duration) on 69 ...
  15 hours ago

• TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  Saturday: President Obama Signs Worker, Homeownership, and Business Act WSJ: 27 Million Reasons to Leave New York The Good and the Bad in Sports Pauly: Limiting the Tax Exclusion for Employment Based Health Insurance Ayers: The Undertraining of Lawyers and its Effect on the Advancement of Women and Minorities ...
  19 hours ago

• Texas Bar Exam Results

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  Here are the results of the July 2009 Texas Bar Exam for first-time test-takers by law school, along with each schools U.S. News ranking: Texas Tech: 94.52% (Tier 3) Baylor: 94.12% (#65) Texas-Wesleyan: 93.29% (Tier 4) Texas: 92.36% (#15) Houston: 91.63% (#59) SMU: 90.99% (#49) South Texas: 89.66% (Tier 4)...
  1 day ago

• U.S. News: GAO Wrong to Blame Us For Rising Law School Tuition

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, follows up on my prior post, GAO: U.S. News Rankings, Not Accreditation, Key Driver of Law School Tuition, in Whos at Fault for the High Cost of Law School?: There are weaknesses in the reports methodology. The GAO...
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• Disciplining Education

  
  Law at the End of the Day — Authority: 116
  It has long been true that the control of educational institutions have been a principal site for the control of social, cultural and political norms within a society. Everyone, from John Dewey to Fidel Castro and John Paul II , has understood that education is less about the production and dissemination of ...
  1 day ago

• The Good and the Bad in Sports

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  I am at my college-freshman sons conference soccer tournament this weekend, with an NCAA Division III Tournament bid on the line for the winning team. It was been a long journey, from select and high school soccer through his first college game and this remarkable season. Their pulsating win in...
  2 days ago

• Ayers: The Undertraining of Lawyers and its Effect on the Advancement of Women and Minorities

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  Irene Segal Ayers (NYU) has published The Undertraining of Lawyers and its Effect on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in the Legal Profession, 1 Duke F. for L. & Soc. Change 71 (2009). Here is the abstract: The undertraining of law students documented in a century’s worth of critiques...
  2 days ago

• Thinking like a woman could hurt you on the MPRE

  
  Feminist Legal Theory — Authority: 126
  The Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) is Saturday. I heard the test wasn’t “particularly difficult or interesting,” so I didnt start studying until this week. Bad idea. The first practice test was a harsh wake up call. When I asked my classmates how their preparation ...
  3 days ago

• Miami Law Prof Drops $22m Lawsuit Against Above the Law Blog

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  Following up on Tuesdays post, Miami Law Prof Sues Above the Law Blog for $22m: Professor Jones has dropped the lawsuit: Notice of Voluntary Dismissal Above the Law National Law Journal Volokh Conspiracy Wall Street Journal Law Blog
  4 days ago

• New Teaching Resources from SALT

  
  clinicians with not enough to do — Authority: 135
  Hi all, To support those interested in developing empirical scholarship about teaching and assessment issues, SALTs Committee on Issues in Legal Education has put together a list of potential social...
  4 days ago

• Tax Prof Job Openings

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  With the AALS faculty recruitment conference beginning today, and formal interviews on Friday and Saturday, here are the law schools I am aware of that are looking to hire one of more entry-level (EL) or lateral (L) tax professors, along with the schools contact person: Albany (EL, L) (Barbara Jordan-Smith)...
  4 days ago

• Which Law Schools Produce the Most "Super Lawyers"?

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  Super Lawyers magazine has published rankings of the Top 10 law schools for producing Super Lawyers in thirty states. Here are some examples: California -- Northern California: UC-Hastings -- 462 Super Lawyers (17% of the total) UC-Berkeley -- 406 (15%) University of San Francisco -- 214 (8%) Santa Clara --...
  5 days ago

• Linguist Tongue-Lashes Jurist

  
  Slaw — Authority: 595
  One of the things I enjoy about reading the Language Log, a cooperative blog by academic linguists, is the ease with which some of the authors slip into high dudgeon. (I suppose I might be like that, too, if my subject were language, in which everyone is an expert.) The latest target of Geoff Pullum’s indignation ...
  5 days ago

• NEWSLETTER DEADLINE

  
  clinicians with not enough to do — Authority: 135
  Two Weeks Until Newsletter Deadline Im sending another reminder to send information for the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education fall 2009 newsletter. The deadline for submissions is Monday,...
  5 days ago

• GAO slides on the cost of law school and on diversity

  
  clinicians with not enough to do — Authority: 135
  from Poverty Law by Ezra Rosser An interesting GAO “report,” really a collection of slides, some quite good, on law school cost and diversity: GAO, Higher Education: Issues Related to Law School Cost...
  5 days ago

• Benefits of Each Type of Court Reporter

  
  Web Works — Authority: 143
  Court reporting is one career that is in great demand. During any court session or other setting that requires a legal record, a record will be recorded by a court reporter. The job of a court reporter involves recording the spoken word during a session such as a deposition, discovery hearing, court trial, or ...
  5 days ago

• Benefits of Each Type of Court Reporter

  
  The Online Ventures — Authority: 129
  Court reporting is one career that is in great demand. During any court session or other setting that requires a legal record, a record will be recorded by a court reporter. The job of a court reporter involves recording the spoken word during a session such as a deposition, discovery hearing, court trial, or ...
  5 days ago

• Race & Class in Elite Colleges

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  Inside Higher Ed, The Power of Race, by Scott Jaschik: Is the glass half empty or half full? Thomas J. Espendshade, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, used that question to answer a question about his new book, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite...
  6 days ago

• 10 iPhone Apps for Lawyers

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 673
  Business Insider, 10 iPhone Apps Every Lawyer Should Have: [W]hether attorneys use the iPhone as their personal cell or their work device, they can make use of a variety of apps specifically directed to their lawyerly needs. My CLE Billing Timer Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Blacks Law Dictionary Delaware...
  6 days ago

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