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Entry Level Hiring (Update #27,

Entry Level Hiring (Update #27, Last Updated on May 3) Information on entry level hiring still continues to come in. So far 61 law schools have reported. Email me at lsolum@sandiego.edu if you'd like to add to the list or if you have a correction. My thanks to everyone who has generously shared information with me so far.
Here is are some interesting numbers:

JD Institution Yale leads with 18, Harvard has 17 and Stanford (10) is close behind. Chicago has 6. Columbia, Michigan, Penn, Georgetown, Berkeley, and Virginia have 4 each. Texas is next with 3.
Arizona-1 Australian National University-1 Boston College-1 Boston University-1 Columbia-4 Cornell-1 Chicago-6 Fordham-1 George Mason-1 George Washington-1 Georgetown-4 Georgia-1 Harvard-17 Hebrew-2 Howard-1 Kansas-2 Michigan-4 National Law School of India-1 North Carolina-1 Northwestern-1 NYU-1 Penn-4 Stanford-10 U of Arizona-1 UC Berkeley-4 UC Davis-1 UCLA-1 Tel Aviv-2 Texas-3 Toronto-1 Tulane-2 Vanderbilt-1 Virginia-4 William & Mary-1 Wisconsin-1 Yale-18
PhD Discipline Philosophy leads with five placements, with Political Science (including Government, Political Theory, etc.) just behind with 4 placements. There must be more economics PhDs in the pool, but perhaps the economists realize that it is rational to be a free rider, gleaning the information submitted by others, but not submitting information yourself.
Economics-1 English-1 History-2 Jurisprudence & Social Policy (Berkeley Program)-1 Middle Eastern Studies-1 Philosophy-5 Political Science-4 Psychology-2

And here are the hires by school in alphabetical order:

American
Amanda Frost (JD Harvard)
Arizona State
Yariv Brauner (JD Hebrew University & JSD NYU)
Adam Chodorow (JD Virginia & LLM NYU)
Linda Demaine (JD Arizona & PhD Psychology Arizona State)
Aaron Fellmeth (JD Yale)
Sandeep Gopalan (JD National Law School of India & DPhil Law Oxford)
Orde Kittrie (JD Michigan)
Boston College
Mary-Rose Papandrea (J.D. Chicago)
California Western
Michael Yu (JD Columbia & LLM NYU)
Chapman
John Hall (JD Stanford & DPhil History Oxford)
Donald Kochan (JD Cornell)
Francine Lipman (JD UC Davis & LLM NYU)
Chicago-Kent
Daniel Hamilton (JD George Washington & Phd History Harvard)
Michael Scodro (JD Yale Law)
Carolyn Shapiro (JD Chicago JD)
Columbia
Alex Raskolnikov (JD Yale)
Cornell
Robert Hockett (JD Kansas & MA Oxford; JSD Yale)
Bernadette Meyler (JD Stanford & PhD English UC Irvine)
DePaul
David Franklin (JD Chicago)
Duke
Jedediah Purdy (J.D. Yale)
Neil Siegel (JD & PhD Berkeley)
Emory
Kimberly Jenkins (JD Harvard)
Michael Kang (JD Chicago & PhD Government Harvard)
Julie Seaman (JD Harvard)
Fordham
Robin Lenhardt (JD Harvard)
Florida State
Amitai Aviram (JD Tel Aviv & JSD Chicago)
Curtis Bridgeman (JD & PhD Philosophy Vanderbilt)
Jonathan Klick (JD & PhD Economics George Mason)
George Mason
Michelle Boardman (JD Chicago)
George Washington
Steve Charnowitz (J.D. Yale)
Amanda Tyler (J.D. Harvard)
Georgetown
John Mikhail (JD Stanford & PhD Philosophy Cornell)
Ethan Yale (JD Tulane & LLM NYU)
Hofstra
Hofstra: Michael Siebecker (JD Columbia & PhD Political Theory (expected) Columbia)
Indiana, Bloomington
Kevin Collins (JD Stanford)
Loyola Marymount University
Robin Kar (JD Yale & PhD Philosophy Michigan)
Lauren Willis (JD Stanford)
Loyola University (Chicago)
Sacha M. Coupet (J.D., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Stephanie M. Stern ( JD Yale)
Marquette
Jason J. Czarnezki (J.D. Chicago)
Scott A. Moss (J.D. Harvard)
Michigan State
Adam Candeub (J.D. Penn)
Noga Morag-Levine (LL.B. Hebrew; Ph.D. Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley)
Minnesota
Kristin Hickman (JD Northwestern)
David Stras (JD & MBA Kansas)
Northwestern
Tonja Jacobi (JD Australian National University & PhD Political Science (Expected) Stanford)
Jide Nzelibe (JD Yale)
Notre Dame
No entry level hire this year.
Ohio State
Garry Jenkins (JD Harvard)
Rutgers, Camden
Greg Lastowka (JD Virginia)
John Oberdiek (JD & PhD Philosophy Penn)
Seton Hall
Gaia Bernstein (JD Boston University & JSD (expected) NYU)
Frank Pasquale (JD Yale & MPhil Oxford Politics)
Southwestern
Paul Horwitz (LL.B. Toronto & LL.M. Columbia)
St. Louis University
Fred Bloom (JD Stanford)
Nicole Porter (JD Michigan)
Southern Methodist
Jenia Iontcheva (JD Yale).
Stanford
Alison Morantz (JD Yale & PhD Economcis Harvard)
Suffolk
Christopher Gibson (JD Berkeley)
Syracuse
Aviva Abramovsky (JD Penn)
Terry Turnipseed (JD & LLM Georgetown)
Temple
Craig Green
David Hoffman (JD Harvard)
Duncan Hollis (JD Boston College)
Texas Wesleyan
Neal Newman (JD Howard)
Aric Short (JD Texas)
University of California at Berkeley
Anne Joseph (JD Yale, Ph.D Harvard in Political Economics and Government)
University of California at Davis
Michelle Alexander (JD Stanford)
Jennifer Chacon (JD Yale)
Carlton Larson (JD Yale)
Donna Shestowsky (JD Stanford & PhD Psychology Stanford)
University of California at Los Angeles
Russell Robinson (JD Harvard)
Noah Zatz (JD Yale)
University of Chicago
Adam Cox (JD Michigan)
Adam Samaha (JD Harvard)
University of Cincinnati
Adam Steinman (JD Yale)
University of Colorado
Nestor Davidson (JD Columbia)
Clare Huntington (JD Columbia)
University of Connecticut
Alexandra Lahav (JD Harvard)
University of Georgia
Kevin Jon Heller (JD Stanford)
Erica Hashimoto (J.D. Georgetown)
University of Kansas
Elizabeth Weeks (JD Georgia)
University of Kentucky
Mark Kightlinger (JD & Ph.D., Philosophy, Yale)
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Tuan Samahon (JD Georgetown)
University of Miami
Mario L. Barnes (JD Berkeley)
University of Nebraska
Richard Moberly (JD Harvard)
University of North Carolina
Richard Myers (North Carolina)
University of Oklahoma
Mary Sue Backus (JD William and Mary)
University of San Diego
Adam Kolber (JD Stanford)
David Law (JD Harvard & PhD Political Science Stanford)
Lisa Ramsey (JD UCLA)
University of South Carolina
Josie Brown (JD Harvard)
Josh Eagle (JD Georgetown)
Joel Samuels (JD Michigan)
University of Tennessee
Jeffrey Hirsch (JD NYU)
University of Texas
Oren Bracha (JD Tel Aviv & SJD Harvard)
University of Washington
Kristin Stilt (JD Texas & PhD Middle Eastern Studies Harvard)
Villanova
Tiffany Graham (JD Virginia)
Wake Forest
No entry level hire this year.
Washington & Lee
Montre Underwood (JD Tulane)
Melissa Waters (JD Yale)
Western New England
William Childs (JD Texas)
Widener, Harriburg
Ben Barros (JD Fordham)
Michael Dimino (J.D. Harvard)
William & Mary
Eric Chason (JD Virginia)
Nancy Combs (JD Berkeley)
Erin Ryan (JD Harvard)
William Mitchell
Alexandra Klass (JD University of Wisconsin)
John Radsan (JD Harvard)

This list will be revised, updated, and reposted on an irregular basis!
And JD students are also hired in other disciplines. For example, Wharton Legal Studies reports that they have hired Kevin Werbach (JD Harvard).
Note: This list is for entry-level hires only. I have arbitrarily grouped first degrees in law as JDs, even though many non-US law schools award the LLB as the first law degree. Several readers have asked that I collect data on subject-matter areas, but my judgment is that this data is both too soft to be reliable and too difficult to collect. My thanks to everyone who has contributed information!

Values and Virtues at the

Values and Virtues at the University of Dundee I will be in Dundee Scotland this weekend attending the Conference on Values and Virtues at the University of Dundee.
The conference on Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics begins today at the University of Dundee in Scotland and continues through May 2. Here is the program:

Friday 30 April 2004
4 onwards Arrivals, registrations 5-7 Keynote address: Christine Swanton (University of Auckland, NZ) 730 Conference dinner
Saturday 1 May 2004
0900-1020 submitted papers 1040-1200 John Skorupski (University of St Andrews) 1300-1420 Theodore Scaltsas (University of Edinburgh) 1430-1550 Paul Russell (University of British Columbia) 1600-1720 submitted papers
Sunday 2 May 2004
0900-1020 submitted papers 1040-1200 Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews) 1300-1420 Antony Duff (University of Stirling) 1430-1550 Adam Morton (University of Oklahoma) 1600-1720 Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma) 1830 Conference ends

Friday CalendarAt the University of

Friday Calendar

At the University of Dundee (today through Sunday), Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics. See you there!
At SUNY Buffalo, Jack Schlegel, UB presents Notes Toward a General Theory of Civil Liability and the Escape from the Plaintiff's Lawyer's Nose
At Oxford's faculty of law, Timothy J. Muris, Chairman US FTC presents Current issues in competition and consumer policy: an international perspective.
At the University of Texas, the first day of a Conference on Constitutional Concepts.
At the The Danish Research School in Philosophy History of Ideas and History of Science, a conference entitled Moral and Legal Reasoning.

Conference Announcement: Homeland Security &

Conference Announcement: Homeland Security & Civil Liberties

U.S. Army War College - Penn Law Conference on "Homeland Security and Civil Liberties" Penn Law School Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 18, 2004

8:30-9:00 Registration and Breakfast

9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks

9:30-10:30 Panel I – Understanding the Threats to Security and to Civil
Liberties
Daniel Sutherland, Office of Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland
Security
David Rudovsky, Penn Law
Eyal Benvenisti, Tel Aviv University

10:45-12:00 Panel II – Innovations in Immigration Policy and Criminal
Procedure
Jan Ting, Temple Law School
David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center
Frank Dunham, Federal Public Defender, Attorney for Yaser Hamdi and
Zacarias Moussaoui
Marwan Kreidie, Director, Philadelphia Arab American Development Corporation

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:15-2:30 Panel III – Privacy and the War on Terror
Marion "Spike" Bowman, FBI
Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Network
Peter Swire, Ohio State

2:45-4:00 Panel IV – Implications for First Amendment Rights
Colonel Kenneth Lassus, Fort Sam Houston
Frederick Schauer, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
Seth Kreimer, Penn Law

4:15-5:30 Panel V – Reconfiguring Presidential and Judicial Power
Colonel Tom McShane, U.S. Army War College
Ruth Wedgwood, Yale Law School
John Yoo, Boalt Hall School of Law
Kim Lane Scheppele, Penn Law

6:00 Dinner

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Call for Papers: New Journal

Call for Papers: New Journal ethic@

ethic@: An International Journal for Moral Philosophy

http://www.cfh.ufsc.br/ethic@/

Publisher: Núcleo de Ética e Filosofia Política - Federal University of Santa Catarina

ethic@ aims at publishing top quality and cutting edge papers (articles, reviews, interviews, etc.) in the field of modern and contemporary moral philosophy.

Published twice a year (June and December), the journal will be available without charge on the following address: www.cfh.ufsc.br/ethic@. Later, the journal will also be published in the traditional format or in CD ROM for personal use or research in libraries.

ethic@ has no ideological orientation and publishes papers from any tradition or area of philosophical investigation that fulfills the requirements of scientific excellence.
The papers may be on meta-ethics, normative or applied ethics. In the latter case, the discussion should be carried out from a philosophical point of view.

The journal will publish papers in Portuguese, English, German, French, Italian
and Spanish.

ISSN: 1677-2954

ethic@ - Revista Internacional de Filosofia da Moral
Núcleo de Ética e Filosofia Política - Dep. Filosofia
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Caixa Postal 476
88010-970 - Florianópolis – SC - Brasil

Email: ethic@cfh.ufsc.br

Current Issue: Vol. 2 Num 2 (Dez 2003)

Date: 19 April 2004

Classroom Technology Department The New

Classroom Technology Department The New York Times has a very interesting story discussing interactive classroom technology & Paul Caron of TaxProf Blog. Paul uses a device that permits students to take in-class quizzes. Here's an excerpt from the story:

Professor Caron of the University of Cincinnati, who uses the clickers in his tax and estate law courses, agreed that the devices could boost attendance. "The reason attendance hovers near 100 percent in my classes is because students know if they miss class they do not get credit for answering the questions correctly that day," he said.

In the pre-clicker past, he said, many students were embarrassed to speak out in class, especially if it meant admitting they did not understand something.

"They were petrified of looking dumb in the eyes of their classmates," he said. Using the clickers, Professor Caron can keep better track of a student's performance and embrace the Socratic method by engaging all the students in his law class at once, not one at a time.

Professor Caron has become something of a hero among his students. "I won the teacher-of-the-year award," he said, "and it had to be the technology, because I'm not that good. I've been teaching 13 years and never won it, then I'm using this thing and I'm Mister Popularity."

And here is the abstract from a forthcoming Journal of Legal Education article by Paul and Rafael Gely:

Law schools (and indeed all of higher education) have witnessed an explosive growth in the use of technology in the classroom. Many law professors now deploy a wide array of technological bells and whistles, including PowerPoint slides, web-based course platforms, in-class Internet access, and the like. Students, in turn, increasingly come to class armed with laptop computers to harvest the fruits of the classroom experience. Yet in recent years there has been somewhat of a backlash, with various law professors arguing that this technology is interfering with, rather than improving, pedagogy in the classroom. According to the critics, this technology increases student passivity and thus interferes with the active learning that should be the hallmark of a law school classroom. In addition, the critics complain that laptops provide too much competition for the students' attention, enticing them to play computer games or DVDs and, with in-class Internet access, to read and send email (or instant messages), shop on-line, or check out the latest political, financial, or sports news. This Article opens a new chapter in this debate, explaining how law professors can use both old and new technologies to increase student engagement in the classroom.

We first lay out the pedagogical case for creating an active learning environment in the law school classroom and then examine the critics' charge that technology impedes these goals. The Article offers a competing vision of how technology can be harnessed to increase active student learning and, in the process, empower students to resist their laptop's siren song. In particular, we describe how in our tax and labor law courses we combine both old (substituting word processing text for PowerPoint slides) and new (using handheld wireless transmitters) technologies to inject more active learning into the classroom.

For more and details on getting an electronic version of the JLE article, check out this TaxProf Blog post.

Thursday CalendarAt the University of

Thursday Calendar

At the University of San Diego's faculty colloquium series, Paul Horwitz presents Grutter's First Amendment.
And at UCSD's Law, Economics, and Politics Series (with USD), Kim Scheppele presents States of Exception and the Temptations Of 9/11 on the UCSD campus.
And also in the USD/UCSD LEP series, Eric Talley (USC) presents Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation and Securities Litigation on the USD campus. At Yale's Legal Theory Workshop, Kendall Thomas is speaking.
At the University of Texas, Seana Shiffrin, UCLA, speaks to the Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium.

Legal Theory Jobs Australian National

Legal Theory Jobs Australian National University has an opening in Legal Theory. Here is the announcement.

Muñoz on Madisonian Religious Liberty

Muñoz on Madisonian Religious Liberty Vincent Phillip Muñoz (North Carolina State University - Department of Political Science & Public Administration) has posted James Madison's Principle of Religious Liberty (American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 17-32, February 2003) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Although James Madison has been invoked by justices and judicial scholars for over one hundred years, Madison's principle of religious liberty has never been fully grasped or adopted by the Supreme Court. Judges and scholars have failed to understand Madison's radical but simple teaching that religion is not part of the social compact and, therefore, that the state may not take religion within its cognizance. This is most unfortunate because Madison offers a doctrine capable of unifying the Constitution's two religion clauses into one straightforward rule. His principle addresses the legitimate criticisms of conservative and liberal advocates who have argued, respectively, that the Supreme Court has been unnecessarily hostile toward and favorable toward religion. Madison thus speaks to the contemporary disillusionment with the Court's religion jurisprudence. A proper interpretation of his thought offers a timely and timeless understanding of the principle of religious freedom.

Wallace on the Publicity of

Wallace on the Publicity of Reasons R. Jay Wallace has posted The Publicity of Reasons. Here is a bit:

It has recently been suggested that there can be no such thing as a private reason for action. Normative reasons are by their nature public; their normative force, in other words, extends across different agents. Thus if considerations C provide me with reason to do x, then they equally provide other people with corresponding reasons for action.
This is an intriguing thesis, which I have come to think is probably both correct and important.