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Deans & Legal Education
A Selected Bibliography
Jeffrey A. Brauch, The Dean and Family Life, 36 U. Tol. L. Rev. 11 (2004).
The author shares the choices he made to balance family life and the responsibilities of being a dean.
Roland A. Cass & John H. Garvey, Law School Leviathan: Expanding Administrative Growth, 35 U. Tol. L. Rev. 37 (2003).
The authors offer five explanations and three theories to explain why growth in the numbers of law school administrators has outpaced growth in those of faculty and students.
R. Lawrence Dessem, Tim, 36 U. Tol. L. Rev. 43 (2004).
The author reflects on the life and deanship of Tim Heinz, who died unexpectedly at age 56, after serving thirteen years as dean of the University of Missouri-Columbia Law School.
Darby Dickerson, Cyberbullies on Campus, 37 U. Tol. L. Rev. 51 (2005).
The author sounds the alarm about the problems of cyber bullies so that the risks associated with this form of bullying can be acknowledged and addressed.
Cynthia L. Fountaine, Stepping In: The Unique Challenges Faced by Interim Law Deans, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 343 (2009).
The title really says it all. The author flags situations that present special challenges for interim deans and suggest strategies for managing and overcoming them.
John H. Garvey, The Business of Running a Law School, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 37 (2001).
The author discusses the various aspects of law school administration that are akin to running a business, including how various departments operate as well as the costs for running an institution and maintaining faculty and programming. He also discusses the unique nature of programs such as legal writing and clinics, and gives strategies for coping with business related issues.
Mark F. Grady, Two Visionary Deans of George Mason Law School, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 59 (2001).
The author expounds on the vision of George Mason Law School’s founders and the school’s efforts for program development that are consistent with that vision.
Thomas F. Guernsey, Continuing Professional Development in Law Schools, 41 U. Tol. L. Rev. 291 (2010).
The author makes the case for post-tenure review of law faculty as part of a commitment to ongoing faculty professional development. He briefly examines the purposes of tenure and of post-tenure review, vets the arguments against post-tenure review, and details the process used in his home institution, Albany Law School.
Robert H. Jerry, II, A Brief Exploration of Space: Some Observations on Law School Architecture, 36 U. Tol. L. Rev. 85 (2004).
The author writes about why architecture matters, and in law school space in particular.
Julie Kay, Wanted: Law School Deans. Lots of Them, Nat’l L.J. (Feb. 2, 2009).
This brief article recounts the difficulties some law school are experiencing filling deanships. The author reports that deaning has become a less attractive job prospect in the current financial climate, as budget cuts and increased pressure on fundraising make it more difficult for deans to recruit faculty and implement programs.
Paul A. LeBel, Size Matters, 38 U. Tol. L. Rev. 557 (2007).
“Size matters in the administration of law schools,” the author concludes about his experience at one of the nation’s smallest law schools. Being small was an advantage in some cases, while in others it presented seemingly insurmountable challenges. On balance, however, the author thinks that the benefits of being small are substantial and otherwise outweigh any disadvantages that could prove disabling.
Richardson R. Lynn, It's Not the End of the World, but You Can See It from There: Legal Education in the Long Emergency, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 377 (2009).
The author imagines the impact of a catastrophic economic collapse on the legal profession and legal education.
Richard A. Matasar, A 9/11 Reflection – It’s Not Just a Project Anymore, 36 U. Tol. L. Rev. 117 (2004).
The author reflects that, three years after September 11, “I cannot escape the emotional hold of New York Law School. Our community shares a bond…forged by outside events ... tell[ing] us life is not just a project.”
Richard J. Morgan, The Establishment of the William S. Boyd School of Law, 36 U. Tol. L. Rev. 133 (2004).
The author writes about the experience of being the founding dean of the second law school in Nevada.
Peter Page, Deans Dislike Ranking Proposals, Nat’l L.J. (July 7, 2008).
The article outlines reactions to U.S. News & World Report’s controversial proposal to include undergraduate grade point average and LSAT score data from part-time law students when calculating rankings.
Burnele V. Powell, The Study of Law “At the Center,” 31 U. Tol. L. Rev. 699 (2000).
The author provides a brief overview of the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law.
Douglas E. Ray & Heather S. Karns, Job Search Skills for the New Economy, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 403 (2009).
The authors offer practical advice to current law students on how to maximize their job prospects.
W. Taylor Reveley, III, W&M Law School Came First. Why Care?, 35 U. Tol. L. Rev. 185 (2003).
The author reviews the history of the law program at William & Mary and muses on the significance of being the first in a field.
Daniel B. Rodriguez, The Market for Deans, 17 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 121 (2008).
The author offers his perspective on why it is becoming more difficult to conduct a successful dean search and why this should be cause for concern among legal educators.
Jim Rosenblatt, The Tenure of a Law School Dean: It’s Not How Long You Make It—It’s How You Make It Long, 42 U. Tol. L. Rev. 667 (2011).
This essay introduces Rosenblatt’s Deans Database, a tool that compiles and updates information about law schools and their deans.
Kurt L. Schmoke, An Outsider’s Way In: The Use of Comparative Election Law, 37 U. Tol. L. Rev. 155 (2005).
“A lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite on society” said former Howard Law School Dean Charles Hamilton Houston. Current Dean, Kurt Schmoke, writes of his hopes to help students understand the relationship between social engineering and election law by comparing the 2000 election in the US with the less well known 2002 election of the Republic of Madagascar.
Donald J. Weidner, Thoughts on Academic Freedom: Urofsky and Beyond, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 257 (2001).
The author briefly examines the history of the legal concept of academic freedom and considers the impact of an upcoming Supreme Court case (at the time).
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