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Tales of a Law Professor Lateral Nothing

Paul M. Secunda
Marquette University - Law School



University of Memphis Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2008
Marquette Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 08-09

Abstract:     
This Essay seeks to uncover the mysterious world of the law professor lateral hiring market, which has become increasingly important in the last number of years as law schools seek to build their reputations in this U.S. News & World Report world through the hiring of prominent faculty members.

Although the advice and guidance given in this Essay are sometimes written with tongue firmly in cheek, I do attempt to accomplish two important objectives here. First, there has been scarcely anything written about the lateral hiring market for law professors, as opposed to the cottage industry that has been devoted to the entry-level law professor hiring market. This Essay methodically takes the lateral-to-be professor through every step of the lateral process from the first-person perspective of one who has been on the market for three years and successfully lateraled this past year.

Second, and perhaps more importantly, I want to contribute to the process of bringing back to legal academic writing the form of the first-person narrative. Like my colleague, David Case, I believe that, the narrative voice is an important, and perhaps underutilized, tool in deconstructing the arbitrary processes of the legal academic hiring market. See David Case, The Pedagogical Don Quixote de la Mississippi, 33 U. Mem. L. Rev. 529, 530 n.2 (2003).

Keywords: law professor, lateral, lateral hiring, lateral market, lateraling

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Date posted: March 14, 2008 ; Last revised: August 05, 2008

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Secunda, Paul M., Tales of a Law Professor Lateral Nothing (March 13, 2008). University of Memphis Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2008; Marquette Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 08-09. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1105933


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Marquette University - Law School ( email )
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