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There are many songs with "You" in the title, not so many with "You've."

 

Hiring Announcement: Queen's University

From an email message that I received earlier today:

The Faculties of Law, Arts and Science, and the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University are partnering to invite applications from exceptional early-career scholars at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor with specialization in Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for a tenure-track/tenured faculty position. The successful candidate will submit an external nomination for a five-year term position as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, eligible for renewal once, to a maximum of two five-year terms as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair.  

This appointment is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as members of one or more of the Four Designated Groups under the Canada Research Chair program: women, Indigenous/Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and racialized persons/visible minorities.

Applications will be reviewed commencing December 7, 2022.

The job posting is available on the Faculty of Law website at https://law.queensu.ca/faculty-recruitment.

Blogosphere Pioneer and Pied Piper

This is guest post #5 by Steve Epstein, about his book Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder.

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 8, Ivory Tower:

“Aloha!  Welcome to PrawfsBlawg!” Dan began his April 5, 2005 post, introducing himself as a “blogger-ab-initio” about to embark on his teaching career.  “This blawg,” he informed readers, “will mostly be by law people, and mostly quite junior, including some who might not even be prawfs yet.”  Three days later, the blogosphere pioneer toasted PrawfsBlawg’s successful launch:  “Thousands of visitors!!  Come hang around, drink scotch and bubble tea with us.”

Dan, Ethan Leib, and a handful of their colleagues across the country would gradually grow PrawfsBlawg into a thriving, burgeoning community of like-minded young professors, ultimately garnering more than 250,000 page views per month.  The idea was that fledgling members of the legal academy were “in it together,” reaching for higher rungs on the academic ladder as a collective enterprise—rather than in monastic seclusion—able to benefit from each other’s wisdom and experiences.  Though Dan posted more frequently than anyone else, a handful of junior professors became permanent contributors.  Invitations to guest blog provided an invaluable platform for young faculty members languishing in obscurity to introduce themselves to the ever-widening Prawfs readership and forge professional connections.

PrawfsBlawg wasn’t all serious business, doubling at times as Dan’s personal diary—replete with his whimsical posts about his and Wendi’s engagement, their wedding, Ben-Ben’s arrival and bris, and marking his “56th month of wedded bliss.”  It also was where he ruminated about the goings-on in Funky T-Town, proper attire for teaching law students, even his introduction to Baby Ruth candy bars. 

Dan used the blog to solicit contributions for Haiti following a devastating earthquake and for ALS research during his colleague Steve Gey’s brave battle with the dreaded disease.  He’d post his “shitty first drafts” of new articles, soliciting feedback to help hone his arguments—and encouraged other Prawfs to do likewise.  He also used PrawfsBlawg to trumpet the accomplishments of Florida State faculty members and up-and-coming scholars from coast to coast.

Taboo Trades Podcast: Donorsexuality with Mary Anne Case

University of Chicago Law professor, Mary Anne Case, joins me and UVA Law 3Ls Reidar Composano and Bryan Blaylock to discuss her forthcoming paper, Donorsexuality. The f-bomb is dropped (but for reasons relevant to the paper) and I emphasize (again) that all this Con Law talk is not welcome on my podcast. No one listens to me.

 

 

Case litigated for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and was professor of law and Class of 1966 Research Professor at the University of Virginia before joining the Chicago Law School faculty. Her scholarship has concentrated on the regulation of sex, gender, sexuality, religion, and family; and the early history of feminism.

Mary Anne Case faculty bio: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/case