CLASS BIAS AND RANDOM THINGS ABOUT LAW SCHOOL AND WHATEVER

 UF Law slide from 21 to 28 in the US News Law School Rankings. Twenty-eight is not so bad and it, at least, avoids the dreaded 30. (I don't mean to imply these rankings mean anything except...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2024/04/floridas-slide-in-rankings-collateral.html

   Laura Rosenbury became the Dean of UF law after a failed search in which the central administration was pushing of all people, Alex Acosta. Why she was selected in the second search no ...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2023/04/class-bias-and-deanship-of-laura.html

 This quote caught my eye in the Gainesville Sun today. It is about, Ben Sasse,  the likely new president of UF, and faculty opposition: "I think many of my colleagues feel that his  acade...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2022/10/ben-sasse-and-paper-tigers-in-academia.html

 I cannot help but think of Joseph  Welch and his historic face off with Joseph McCarthy when he finally said, in effect, ENOUGH, "Have you no sense of decency." The answer was obvi...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2022/05/no-heroes-at-uf-desantification-of.html

                                                                      About once a year a student comes to my office to ask about becoming a law profess...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2019/12/no-you-cannot-be-law-professor.html

  The latest Bar exam results show that about 1 of 5 UF law grads fail the bar exam. Maybe that is not so bad but something is amiss. First, remember that these students are hand picked b...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/09/something-is-wrong-at-uf-law.html

 Just heard on the radio that Scott Strickland, UF athletic director (salary in excess of $1 million a year), announced no LSU like restrictions for admission to the Swamp.  In fact, no mask re...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/08/i-was-following-fuhrers-orders.html

Excerpt for Ken Oldfield's,   "Structural Nepotism: On the Reluctance of Law Schools to Include Social Class Origins among their Faculty Diversity Goals" VII. Confess’n the Blues  Jeffre...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/08/structural-nepotism-on-reluctance-of.html

  I have not thought much about legal scholarship lately but a few months ago my elitist and ratings-obsessed former dean send out a memo to the faculty promoting the idea of writing thing...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/08/legal-scholarship-citations-and.html

  Cutting in Line You might think that law professors are sticklers for following the rules. In fact, the opposite is true. They do not regard rules, and especially University Regulation...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/05/excerpt-from-in-company-of-thieves_31.html

               Confercationing is  when law professors claim to be going to a conference on the law school’s dime but are really on a one to 5 day vacation. The biggest on of t...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/05/excerpt-from-in-company-of-thieves.html

  The Senator At Nine couple of weeks ago, I received the following from Dean Bob: Memorandum To: Professor Harris From: Dean Bob Date: February 7, 2007 Re: Visit of Senator Facew...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/05/excerpt-for-in-company-of-thieves.html

  Grade Appeals To understand my stories is useful to know that law faculties, like most others, are assigned to committees. There are committees assigned to  propose candidates to be hir...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/05/draft-excerpt-for-in-company-of-thieves.html

>>>    In his classic 1967 article on rent-seeking (which does not actually use the term because it had not been coined at that time) Gordon Tullock explained that the cost of theft was ...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2016/07/thieves-rent-seeking-and-pie.html

  For most law professors I have known, life is an extended negotiation to advance one’s self interest. They are their own clients. Their constant obsession about where they rank means a ...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/04/draft-excerpt-from-in-company-of_21.html

    Foreign Programs One way mid and lower level law schools compete with each other is by offering foreign opportunities. In some cases the students can spend a semester studying at a...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/04/draft-excerpt-from-in-company-of_12.html

  Law professors are evaluated to determine if they should be tenured. Supposedly you must excel in scholarship, teaching, and service. You would think that if someone actually excelled at ...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/04/draft-excerpt-from-in-company-of.html

  Actually I cannot give you the rankings other than to say it would look nothing like the elitist, manipulation-prone ranking of US News. These are, however, the factors that would go into...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-peoples-with-apologies-to-zinn.html

  BOOO Bill Barr, you unprincipled Trump sycophant. You rascal. All of us, (well  not all, there are a couple of numbskulls who admire you ) principled law professors and administrators th...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-bill-barr-school-of-law-school.html

 I've beefed about an obvious misuse of funds to fuel the egos of the privileged so I will try to provide a short version. UF law has the physical plant and faculty to admit 600 qualified st...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2021/03/law-school-stimulus-reparation-checks.html

  In today's Gainesville Sun one of the main stories was about State and University pressure to have full scale in person classes in the Spring. Yes, that is before or shortly after a vacci...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2020/09/uf-becomes-the-new-trump-university-and.html

  In my teaching career I have been through 9 law school deans. One thing I think is true is that there is an inverse relationship between the number of side deals a dean makes and how long th...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-life-of-deans-and-side-deals-theory.html

Hi,  I am writing here to rising 2 and 3 Ls in order to bring their attention to a course with the mysterious title "ICAM." That stands for International Commercial Law Moot but that does not...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2020/04/commercial-arbitration-course.html

Most people know that negative externalities are costs of your activities that you impose on others. With the release of the new US News law school rankings it makes sense to think about whe...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2020/03/compensating-victims-of-ratings-scramble.html

When a dean lasts five years at my law school, he or she is evaluated by the faculty in order to determine whether there should be another five years. I note that this evidently has no impac...

http://classbias.blogspot.com/2020/03/killing-messenger.html