This panel will focus on law scholarship in our changing environment. Legal scholars are under increasing amounts of pressure from a number of different sources, pressure that often conflicts. The changes to the submission process brought about by Expresso and the proliferation of law journals have had effects on that process that have, in turn, affected the tenure rules of at least some schools on the quantity of scholarship required, what kind of scholarship "counts," and what entity has published that scholarship. These changes have affected all of us, but even more profoundly, those writing in areas that are not as popular to second year law students or as clearly part of ongoing scholarly dialogues, especially interdisciplinary work. At the same time, critiques from the bench and bar about the utility of legal scholarship have pushed back on these trends especially in combination with critiques from students and the non-lawyer population about costs of that scholarship and its worth (or lack) to the process of legal education in the context of the current business model for law school. Panelists will discuss these pressures and suggest ways to navigate them.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.