The Faculty Lounge

Hiring Announcement: University of Tennessee College of Law

From a recent email message:

The College of Law at the University of Tennessee seeks exceptional candidates to fill the position of Director of Executive Education and Non-JD Programs. The Director of Non-JD Programs will provide vision and leadership for the College of Law's existing Master of Legal Studies (MLS) and Graduate Certificate in Legal Studies programs. In addition, the Director will be responsible for leading the creation and maintenance of executive education programs for practicing attorneys and non-lawyers. The Director will work with College of Law administration to support high-quality instruction, academic advising, and career and professional development. Position responsibilities include admissions and student recruitment, curriculum selection and scheduling, program assessment, recruitment of program faculty, budget planning and management, external relations, community outreach, and ongoing program innovation and fundraising. The Director will also have some teaching responsibilities.

For more information, see the position announcement.

Hiring Announcement: University of Connecticut School of Law (Associate Professor or Professor of Law)

From a recent email message:

The University of Connecticut School of Law invites applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for two full-time, tenure-track, or tenured-at-hire faculty positions commencing in the fall of 2024. Although we will consider candidates with a range of curricular and scholarly expertise, subject areas of particular interest include criminal procedure, environmental and energy law, and taxation; we also have needs in civil procedure, constitutional law, cybersecurity, land use, professional responsibility, property, securities regulation, and trusts and estates. A successful candidate will have a record of professional accomplishments commensurate with an appointment at the rank of (1) Associate Professor (for entry-level candidates) or (2) Professor (for lateral candidates) with an opportunity for tenure-at-hire.

The UConn School of Law is especially interested in candidates who will add to the diversity of our faculty and community. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups and other candidates with experiences, backgrounds, and viewpoints that will enrich the diversity of our institution.

Hiring Announcement: University of Connecticut School of Law (Director of Legal Practice)

From a recent email message:

The University of Connecticut School of Law seeks candidates for the position of Director of Legal Practice (Clinical Professor of Law or Professor of Law) to direct and teach in its first-year Legal Practice Program (LP Program), commencing in the fall of 2024. The LP Program at UConn Law School is an integrated three-term, seven-credit program that provides experiential training in legal writing, legal research, negotiation, interviewing, counseling, and oral advocacy. The Director will have security of position under the School of Law’s policies for either tenure or long-term contracts.

We seek an experienced, innovative, and collaborative director to guide the LP Program, including developing curriculum, mentoring faculty, teaching, and interfacing with external and internal stakeholders. For the opportunity for tenure at hire, this person will have an outstanding record of professional accomplishments commensurate with an appointment at the rank of Professor. We are especially interested in candidates who will add to the diversity of our faculty and community. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates with experiences, backgrounds, and viewpoints that will enrich the diversity of our institution.

Bi+ Visibility Day and Marjorie Rowland

In honor of today being Celebrate Bisexuality Day (aka Bi+ Visibility Day or Bi Visibility Day), I thought I would post about bisexual rights pioneer Marjorie Rowland, who sued way back in 1975 when she was suspended and then faced nonrenewal of of her contract as a school guidance counselor because she had acknoweledged her bisexuality to a school secretary. Although she first had to appeal dismissal of her case to the Sixth Circuit, she ultimately won a jury verdict based on her equal protection and First Amendment claims, only to have it cursorily reversed by the Sixth Circuit. The Supreme Court denied review, over a powerful dissent by Justice Brennan, and Ms. Rowland, who had enrolled in and graduated from law school during the pendency of the case, was left to deal with the considerable fall-out from the case, including an apparently retaliatory charge of welfare fraud and an initial denial of her moral character application to the Arizona Bar. Ms. Rowland, however, persevered and ultimately had a successful family law and bankruptcy practice in Tucson for decades. 

My article about the case, forthcoming in Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, brings to light little-known facts gleaned from the trial transcript, explores the flaws in the Sixth Circuit opinion, and also argues that part of the reason that Ms. Rowland's case, Rowland v. Mad River Local School District, did not receive the attention it deserved in scholarship and case law was likely bisexual erasure. The article looks at areas where bisexual erasure continues to be prevalent, including the relatively scant coverage of bisexuality in Law & Sexuality textbooks, and briefly touches on how far we have come--and in some areas, how little progress has been made--since Ms. Rowland brought her case. Remarkably (or perhaps not at all remarkably, given the times we're in), a very similar case brought by a Kentucky choral teacher who was fired based on disclosing his bisexuality on his Instagram account is pending today.  

Happy Celebrate Bisexuality Day!

Like a Rolling Stone

"Like a Rolling Stone" is literally a song that needs no introduction, but here is a short one nonetheless. It is beyond question one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded. Rolling Stone (the magazine) ranked it number one in both 2004 and 2010, although it fell to number four in 2021. Other rankings -- by the Guardian, Pitchfork, Uncut, and others -- have had it between first and fourth. I doubt that any serious Rock music critic would list it out of the top five of all time. Of course, these rankings are all kind of silly, given the breadth of the music and varying tastes, so please just enjoy the music.

CFP: Workshop on Feminist Approaches to State and Governance.

A Workshop on Feminist Approaches to State and Governance

Emory University School of Law

Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative

Hybrid Workshop (in-person and virtual option)

December 15-16, 2023

 

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project (FLT). During that time, FLT has held workshops, hosted visitors, and sought to encourage and facilitate feminist analyses of law and institutions.

For this session, FLT seeks working papers exploring what a feminist legal theory approach to the State or the process of governance should entail.

 

The full call for papers and submission procedures are available here. The deadline for submissions is Friday, October 27, 2023.

 

Craig Boise Stepping Down as Dean of Syracuse Law

Syracuse College of Law has announced that Craig Boise will step down as dean at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year.  Boise became dean at Syracuse in 2016 and previously served as dean of Cleveland State's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.  He will return to the faculty after a sabbatical. 

In Memoriam: JoAnne Epps

I've just learned the incredibly sad news that Temple University Acting President JoAnne Epps has passed away. She was a member of Temple's law faculty and served as dean of the law school from 2008 to 2016 and provost from 2016 to 2021.

2023 Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership Workshop

This just in:

The Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership Workshop will be held on October 13 and 14.    Since 2018, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and Seattle University School of Law have partnered for the “Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership Workshop.” This year, the workshop is hosted by Loyola University Chicago School of Law and DePaul College of Law. The workshop is designed to encourage and assist members of underrepresented groups to pursue deanships and other leadership positions.  The two-day workshop will feature sessions led by law school deans from around the country. It takes place on Friday, October 13 and Saturday, October 14 at the Corboy Law Center, Loyola University Chicago. Please note, registration is required.

Register and find more details here. 

Hiring Announcement: University of Ottawa

From a recent email message:

The University of Ottawa, faculty of law (common law section) will be hiring three entry level professors in our English program, and 1 in our Program de Common Law Français.

Details are available here:

https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-law/common-law/about/faculty-recruitment

https://www.uottawa.ca/faculte-droit/common-law/a-propos/recrutement-facultaire

 

UDC Seeking a Visitor to Teach Contracts and Bus. Orgs.

The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law seeks a visiting professor to teach Contracts II (UCC Art. II, etc.) and Business Organizations in the Spring semester of 2024. Applications are encouraged from women, candidates of color, LGBTQIA+ candidates, disabled candidates, and others whose background and experience would contribute to the diversity of the law school community.

 

UDC Law is the District of Columbia’s only public law school and is one of only six American Bar Association approved law schools at a Historically Black College or University. UDC Law has a statutory mission to recruit and enroll students from groups traditionally underrepresented at the bar; to provide a well-rounded theoretical and practical legal education that will enable students to be effective and ethical advocates; and to represent the legal needs of low-income residents through the School’s legal clinics.

 

With questions or to express interest, please contact UDC Law Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Matt Fraidin at [email protected]. 

Hiring Announcement: City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law

From a recent email message:

The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law seeks tenure track or lateral candidates to teach in one of the following areas: Criminal Law, Torts, and Evidence, as well as in CUNY School of Law’s clinical program, specifically the Defenders (criminal defense) clinic. The Defenders Clinic seeks candidates with substantial trial and appellate level public defender experience, with a specific focus working on behalf of people serving life and long-term sentences in pursuit of gubernatorial clemency, parole, and/or resentencing. 

Appointments are to begin no later than Fall 2024. Applications will be accepted until October 15, 2023.

CUNY School of Law is a national leader in progressive legal education, being top-ranked for public interest law and for clinical programs. CUNY is also the most diverse law school in the nation and has both a three-year full-time day program and a four-year part-time evening program.

CUNY School of Law’s mission is two-fold: training public interest attorneys to practice law in the service of human needs, and providing access to the profession for members of historically underrepresented communities.

The primary responsibility of each hire will be to teach law students in the courses and clinics stated above, along with other courses as part of a course package. Candidates must have backgrounds representing, or scholarship related to, the topics in which they seek to teach. In dialogue with the Academic Dean, all faculty at CUNY School of Law are expected to teach other subjects as needed, including required first-year Lawyering Seminars on a rotating basis, and are expected to teach in both the day and evening programs on a rotating basis.

Full details on the positions can be found here, as Job ID 27156.  Please note that all candidates must go through the application process as detailed on the page in order to be considered. From our job posting system, select "Apply Now", create or log in to a user account, and provide the requested information. For any questions, please contact [email protected]. 

Law Professor Twitter Social Media Census: Call for Updates and New Entries

Since 2012, I've been compiling a user-populated census of law professors on Twitter, now known as X. Given the recent changes to that social media platform, my anecdotal sense is that the overall volume of law professor dialogue there has declined and that some (many?) colleagues have migrated to other platforms.

In an effort to capture the X diaspora, this year's census asks users to list their names, school affiliation, and areas of interest (as before).  New this year is the option to list handles on X (formerly Twitter), Meta, Blue Sky, Mastodon, and any other network.

If you're already in the census, please confirm your details and update as necessary. Users can make changes directly to the spreadsheet here.

If you're not in the census and you'd like to be listed, please read on.

As with prior versions, the list is meant to cover individual law professor accounts only (not accounts of groups, programs, blogs, law schools, print publications, students, practitioners, staff).  Folks should be full-time law school faculty members (not, say, law-trained profs working in business schools or lawyers working in law schools in roles other than full-time faculty). Law profs outside the U.S. very, very welcome. Anonymous and pseudonymous accounts are not eligible for inclusion.

The downloadable, sortable spreadsheet can be edited directly by accessing this link. If you’d like to add your name, or if you would like to add to or modify your existing listing in census, the census calls for:

(a) Your name

(b) Your handle on Twitter X, Meta, Blue Sky, Mastodon, or any other social networking site

(c) Your school affiliation

(d) Up to three subject-matter areas of interest that related to your teaching, scholarship or tweeting.

Here are customary responses to some anticipated questions from inquiring minds who want to know:

1.  How was the census developed?

The list is based on previous censuses. I have added or deleted very few names myself, based on law prof accounts that I have happened to encounter (typically because they follow me on a platform or I follow them) or if I knew someone had changed schools, left the academy, etc. I have made no concerted effort to update the list myself.

2.  How accurate is the census?

Not at all.

If there are corrections, additions, etc., please feel free to make them directly to the spreadsheet.  As a last resort, you can email me directly at bcrawford at law dot pace dot edu.  The deadline for changes is October 16, 2023, 5pm eastern. I'll republish again shortly thereafter via posting here on the Lounge, and then not again until next year, most likely.

3. Why isn't my information listed in the census? Why isn't my colleague's information listed?

The census relies almost exclusively on self-identification. To be included in the list, you must actively add yourself to it or update your own information.

4. Why is your list limited to full-time law school faculty members?

Because that's the population about which I wanted to capture data. Want a different survey? A better one? Feel free to start one, and I'm happy to publicize it here, if relevant to legal education.

The current census is embedded below, too (but edit via links above).

Taboo Trades Podcast: My Body, My Choice with Ilya Somin

On this episode, George Mason Law's Ilya Somin joins me and UVA Law students Joseph Camano ('24) and Dennis Ting ('24) to discuss the full implications of "My Body, My Choice." Somin argues that the principle has implications that go far beyond abortion (including paying kidney donors, and abolishing the draft and mandatory jury service) and that both liberals and conservatives are inconsistent in their application. 

 

 

ILYA SOMIN is Professor of Law at George Mason University and the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, democratic theory, federalism, and migration rights.  He is the author of  Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2020, revised and expanded edition, 2021), Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter (Stanford University Press, revised and expanded second edition, 2016), and The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain (University of Chicago Press, 2015, rev. paperback ed., 2016), co-author of A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and co-editor of Eminent Domain: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2017).  Democracy and Political Ignorance has been translated into Italian and Japanese.

 

Further Reading:

Ilya Somin bio, George Mason Law School

Ilya Somin, Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter (Stanford University Press, revised and expanded second edition, 2016)

Ilya Somin,  Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2020, revised and expanded edition, 2021)

Ilya Somin, A Broader Perspective on "My Body, My Choice"

Ilya Somin, Are Abortion Bans Takings?

Ilya Somin, Markets with Just a Few Limits

Ilya Somin, review of Cass Sunstein’s book Too Much Information: 

https://reason.com/volokh/2020/10/16/two-important-new-books-on-knowledge-bias-and-paternalism/

Ilya Somin, “Warning About Government Warnings”:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/22/a-warning-about-government-warnings/

Kim Krawiec, personal webpage https://kimberlydkrawiec.org and University of Virginia Law School webpage https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/kdk4q/1181653

Krawiec, Kimberly D. "Markets, repugnance, and externalities." Journal of Institutional Economics (2022): 1-12.

Healy, Kieran, and Kimberly D. Krawiec. "Repugnance management and transactions in the body." American Economic Review 107.5 (2017): 86-90.

Krawiec, Kimberly D. "No Money Allowed." U. Chi. Legal F.(2022): 221.

Cook, Philip J., and Kimberly D. Krawiec. "A primer on kidney transplantation: anatomy of the shortage." Law & Contemp. Probs. 77 (2014): 1.

Cook, Philip J., and Kimberly D. Krawiec. "If We Allow Football Players and Boxers to Be Paid for Entertaining the Public, Why Don't We Allow Kidney Donors to Be Paid for Saving Lives." Law & Contemp. Probs. 81 (2018): 9.

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