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Tenure: Endangered Or Evolutionary Species, James J. Fishman
Tenure: Endangered Or Evolutionary Species, James J. Fishman
Akron Law Review
This article will review some of the challenges to the system of academic tenure: the efforts to reform, curtail, or eliminate it. It will discuss exogenous factors undermining the institution and then suggest some areas where tenure should evolve, particularly focusing upon academic tenure in legal education. The author argues that the hierarchical structure of traditionally tenured faculty and other faculty, clinicians, and legal writing professors, employed on short or long-term contracts, has undermined academic freedom and tenure.
The Corporatization Of Academic Research: Whose Interests Are Served?, Risa L. Lieberwitz
The Corporatization Of Academic Research: Whose Interests Are Served?, Risa L. Lieberwitz
Akron Law Review
The following article is the text of a speech given at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in January 2005, which has been edited and footnoted for publication in the Akron Law Review.