Legal Commentary

My school has recently adopted a pre-tenure leave (teaching release) policy, of which I will be one of the early beneficiaries this fall. In fact, with classes over for the year, I only have 70 civil procedure exams standing between me and that leave.

So what am I going to do? I?m going to Disneyworld! Really. With my husband and kids. After that, I hope to do a little writing.

I wonder whether there is a trend toward adopting pre-tenure leave, or whether my school (which is not one of the very elite) is just an outlier compared to its sister institutions? My sense is that this sort of teaching release is fairly common in disciplines other than law ? but of course, many other disciplines have heavier teaching loads to begin with. Do you have pre-tenure leave? Or a pre-tenure light teaching load? I?m interested in finding out how it works elsewhere.