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Cooperation And Turnover In Law Faculties: A Game-Theoretic Model And An Empirical Study
Cooperation And Turnover In Law Faculties: A Game-Theoretic Model And An Empirical Study
Marquette Law Review
A standard account of group cooperation would predict that group stability would bring about greater cooperation because repeat-play games would allow for sanctions and rewards. In an academic unit such as a department or a law faculty, one might thus expect that faculty stability would bring about greater cooperation. However, academic units are not like most other groups. Tenured professors face only limited sanctions for failing to cooperate, for engaging in unproductive conflict, or for shirking. This article argues counter-intuitively that within limits, some level of faculty turnover may enhance cooperation. Certainly, excessive and persistent loss of faculty is demoralizing, …
Supreme Verbosity: The Roberts Court's Expanding Legacy
Supreme Verbosity: The Roberts Court's Expanding Legacy
Marquette Law Review
The link between courts and the public is the written word. With rare exceptions, it is through judicial opinions that courts communicate with litigants, lawyers, other courts, and the community. Whatever the court’s statutory and constitutional status, the written word, in the end, is the source and the measure of the court’s authority.
It is therefore not enough that a decision be correct—it must also be fair and reasonable and readily understood. The burden of the judicial opinion is to explain and to persuade and to satisfy the world that the decision is principled and sound. What the court says, …
Towards A Series Of Academic Norms For #Lawprof Twitter, Carissa Byrne Hessick
Towards A Series Of Academic Norms For #Lawprof Twitter, Carissa Byrne Hessick
Marquette Law Review
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Institutional Pluralism And The (Hoped-For) Effects Of Candor And Integrity In Legal Scholarship, Paul Horwitz
Institutional Pluralism And The (Hoped-For) Effects Of Candor And Integrity In Legal Scholarship, Paul Horwitz
Marquette Law Review
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A Thought Experiment About The Academic "Billable" Hour Or Law Professors' Work Habits, Eli Wald
A Thought Experiment About The Academic "Billable" Hour Or Law Professors' Work Habits, Eli Wald
Marquette Law Review
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