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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

The dilution of tenure?

Paul Caron reports, here, on some "dramatic changes" -- including changes to rules involving tenure -- that were set to be discussed at the ABA Standards Review Committee's July 2010 meetings.  His report provides an occasion, maybe, for taking a look atthis series of posts, in The New York Times, on tenure and academic freedom.  (Prof. Mark Taylor says, for example, that tenure is "unsustainable and indefensible"; Prof. Cary Nelson says that it is essential to academic freedom, and should be strengthened.)  This piece, describing the objections of "law faculty" to the ABA's proposals, might also be of interest, as might this complaint, at Above the Law, about the ABA's priorities.

I have not heard any post-meeting reports about the discussion of the proposed changes.  Have any of you?

Posted by Rick Garnett on August 3, 2010 at 10:09 AM | Permalink

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Matt, thanks for the links. I hope it was clear -- I did, after all, link to Prof. Nelson's very-different view as well -- that I was not endorsing Taylor's.

Posted by: Rick Garnett | Aug 3, 2010 10:17:52 AM

If you're going to link to the (very bad, to my mind) pieces by Taylor, it might be worth noting these replies to him:

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2010/07/mark-c-taylor-is-a-menace.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/opinion/l03university.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Taylor+Carman&st=cse

I find them, and the linked discussions in them, largely effective in destroying Taylor's position.

Posted by: Matt | Aug 3, 2010 10:13:58 AM

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