The Faculty Lounge

One-Offs: Part Three

I considered using these songs for Saturday posts, but I couldn't find enough interesting covers, so here is the third compilation of random one-offs. I'm not saying there are no other versions, just not enough for an entire post. Part One is here, Part Two is here.

CFP: The Association for Law, Property and Society Annual Meeting

This just in:

The Association for Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) announces that the Call for Papers (CFP) for its 14^th Annual Meeting is now available and open. We are excited to host the meeting at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law in Malibu, California, from June 13 to 15, 2024. 

Individual paper or panel proposals are due by December 31, 2023, and the registration deadline for program inclusion is May 1, 2024.  Our submission portal can be found at https://alps-law.org/submissions. 

The entire CFP, which includes submission details, can be downloaded at https://alps-law.org/call-for-papers. Please feel free to distribute the CFP widely! For more information, please visit our newly redesigned website at https://alps-law.org/annual-meeting. 

Questions can be directed to [email protected]. 

Michael Sant'Ambrogio Tabbed as Interim Dean of Michigan State Law

Michael Sant'Ambrogio has been recommended to serve as interim dean of MSU Law, effective January 9, 2024.  Sant'Ambrogio joined the law school in 2011 and currently serves as professor of law and senior associate dean for faculty and academic affairs.  He holds a JD from NYU.

Taboo Trades Podcast: Kidneys, Stakes, and Plasma with James Stacey Taylor

On today’s episode, the amazing James Stacey Taylor, a Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey, joins me and UVA Law 3L Liam Bourque. Taylor has written over 100 academic articles and five books. He’s with us today to discuss excerpts from two of those books: Bloody Bioethics: Why Prohibiting Donor Compensation Harms Patients and Wrongs Donors, and Stakes & Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts Are Morally Imperative

 

 

Show Notes

Taylor, James Stacey. Stakes and kidneys: why markets in human body parts are morally imperative. Taylor & Francis, 2017.

 

Taylor, James Stacey. Bloody bioethics: Why prohibiting plasma compensation harms patients and wrongs donors. Routledge, 2022.

 

Blood and Repugnant Transactions with Nicola Lacetera & Mario Macis (Season 1, Episode 4)

https://tabootrades.buzzsprout.com/1227113/5542648

 

Plasma with Peter Jaworski (Season 1, Episode 1) https://tabootrades.buzzsprout.com/1227113/5147371-plasma-with-peter-jaworski

 

UNT Dallas College of Law Seeks Faculty

This just in:

The UNT Dallas College of Law seeks to hire two new faculty members. We welcome applications for a full-time faculty member to serve as Director of Academic Success and Bar Readiness and a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Law.

The Director of Academic Success must have significant experience in academic success and bar readiness in legal education. A candidate for this position should have the ability to oversee the operations of a law school academic success and bar readiness department, teach bar readiness courses, and possibly a doctrinal course, depending on interest and need. The position is a 12-month appointment holding faculty rank as a Professor of Practice. Depending on mutual interest and availability, the position would start in Spring 2024 or Fall 2024. The complete position description and information on how to apply can be found here: https://jobs.untsystem.edu/postings/77839. For additional information please contact Professor Loren Jacobson at [email protected].

The UNT Dallas College of Law is also seeking applications from experienced lawyers, judges, and law school instructors who are interested in serving as an entry-level tenure track Assistant Professor of Law beginning in Fall 2024. The Assistant Professor will teach twelve credit hours for the academic year in our Legal Writing program. The program includes first year Legal Writing and upper-level Legal Writing courses. Depending on the needs of the College of Law, the Assistant Professor may be assigned to teach other courses. The complete position description and information on how to apply can be found here: https://jobs.untsystem.edu/postings/77307. For additional information please contact Professor Loren Jacobson at [email protected].

Hiring Announcement: Texas Tech University School of Law

From a recent email message:

Summary Information

The School of Law at Texas Tech University invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track Professor of Law position to begin in August of 2024.  The position is open to both entry-level candidates and candidates who are on the tenure-track or tenured at another school.  Candidates who satisfy Texas Tech University’s requirements to be hired with tenure will also be eligible to hold the Frank McDonald Endowed Professorship in business law.

Required Qualifications

In line with TTU’s strategic priorities to engage and empower a diverse student body, enable innovative research and creative activities, and transform lives and communities through outreach and engaged scholarship, applicants should have experience or demonstrated potential for working with diverse student populations at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels within individual or across the areas of teaching, research/creative activity, and service.

Specific required qualifications are:

1. Candidates should have a J.D.;
2. Candidates should have a demonstrated potential for excellence in research, teaching, and service; and
3. Candidates should have demonstrated potential for excellence in the areas of Contracts and in corporate/business law, such as Business Entities, Securities Regulation, Mergers & Acquisitions, and related courses.

Preferred Qualifications

In addition to the required qualifications, individuals with the following preferred qualifications are strongly encouraged to apply:  Experience teaching corporate/business law courses and scholarly publications in corporate/business law areas.

Ron Weich Stepping Down as University of Baltimore Law Dean

The University of Baltimore School of Law has announced that Ronald Weich will step down as dean at the end of the 2023-24 academic year.  Weich became dean in 2012.  The university will conduct a  search this with the goal of having a new dean by next summer.