Law and Letters: Larry Solum's Academic Wish List

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Recovering academic, blogger-back-from-the-dead, and one-year veteran of the workforce. Now an organizational embed, with lessons learned from the trenches and stories to tell. All with a not-so-slightly academic twist.

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Larry Solum's Academic Wish List

Larry followed up on my post on pragmatic wants over at his blog.

My list of things legal academics want:

A drawer with an ever replenishing supply of binder clips

An office close to the coffee maker

An interview on NPR about their new book

Leave

More leave

An offer

More offers

Cites

More cites

The ability to type as fast as Cass Sunstein

Dick Posner's book royalties

And things other academics have that law professors envy:

Graders

Real scholarly associations

Some idea of what they are supposed to be doing

Fewer arguments about procedure in faculty meetings

Journal editors who understand what they read

Things law professors have that other academics envy

Salaries

Travel budgets

Journals without standards

Getting a job without writing a diss

Tenure in less than six years

I think we can all agree!

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Larry Solum's Academic Wish List